Alex Birch on 2 Dec 2003 16:19:03 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] search and replace multiple files? 

John Fiore wrote:

This post was from a while ago.  I saved it because I
thought that it might come in handy.

      perl -pie 's/foo/bar/' file1

I get the error:
     Can't open perl script "s/foo/bar/": No such file
or directory

I'm using bash, but the same thing occurs if I'm using
tcsh.  I'm probably doing something stupid.  Any
ideas?


Try use perl -p -i -e 's/foo/bar/' file1

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