Walt Mankowski on 2 Dec 2003 16:34:02 -0500 |
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 04:16:31PM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:09:27PM -0800, John Fiore wrote: > > perl -pie 's/foo/bar/' file1 > > > > I get the error: > > Can't open perl script "s/foo/bar/": No such file > > or directory > > Try perl -pi -e 's/foo/bar/' <files> > > Parsing of -e as part of a block of switches appears to be broken, > at least with my copy of 5.6.1. Actually the problem is that the -i switch is grabbing the e to be the extension to rename its backup files. Oh well, guess that just proves the importance of testing one-liners before sending them out to the list. Sorry about that. :( Walt Attachment:
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