I think the thing that's missing is the -w after perl: C:\TEMP>perl -w -pi.bak -e 's/this/that/g' testtextfile.txt Useless use of a constant in void context at -e line 1.
Cryptic, but clearly something is not right. Actually, Jenda had the answer to the actual problem (shell interpretation rules), but I just wanted to point out that our friend the -w switch helps even with one-liners. hth, Craig Arnold Boeing Space & Communication International Space Station Guidance, Navigation & Control Huntington Beach, CA -----Original Message----- From: Steve Harper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 3:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Search and replace one-liners in ActivePerl broken? Can someone please tell me why the following doesn't work? Observe: In Windows 2000 CMD.exe, with ActiveState Perl 5.6.1 Build 631 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ D:\>copy con testtextfile.txt This is this, that is that Thats all folks! ^Z 1 file(s) copied. D:\>perl -pi.bak -e 's/this/that/g' testtextfile.txt D:\>md5sum test* ca08d1da587bff5a25bb33f22fa62df7 *testtextfile.txt ca08d1da587bff5a25bb33f22fa62df7 *testtextfile.txt.bak D:\>rm *.bak ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Now, lets try that in Cygwin w/ it's perl v5.6.1... Administrator@PSIONIC /cygdrive/d $ perl -pi.bak -e 's/this/that/g' testtextfile.txt Administrator@PSIONIC /cygdrive/d $ md5sum test* 74d5c5e10b51b882fa5438a4f99cc111 *testtextfile.txt ca08d1da587bff5a25bb33f22fa62df7 *testtextfile.txt.bak Administrator@PSIONIC /cygdrive/d $ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I'm fairly perplexed by this difference in behaviour, I've read a fair amount in the documentation to try to figure this out, but nothing I've seen has really answered my question. I'm sure its something stupid, like shell differences, but it seems like the perl runtime is getting everything it needs here and is still not making the changes to the file. Thanks in advance for any help on this. Steve Harper Software Developer Campus Student Computing University Of Utah _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
