Re: [PLUG] search and replace multiple files?

[McLinux <mclinux@myrealbox.com>]

Alex Birch wrote:

> 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

I think the flag 'g' is missing here.
The above command should be written as
perl -pi -e 's/foo/bar/g' file1.


BTW Which perl version are you using? The above has been tested with 
Perl 5.8.0.

- McLinux


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