Looks good but it bombs ... the Perl interpreter crashes from the DOS prompt
... using version 5.10.0 build 1005 from ActiveState.
But it was better than what I had, that's for sure
This makes for a bit of a mind teaser thanks to it being on Windoze ... :-)
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From: Shawn H. Corey <shawnhco...@gmail.com>
To: Tony Esposito <tony1234567...@yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: "Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- CFS"
<david.wag...@fedex.com>; Beginners Perl <beginners@perl.org>
Sent: Monday, 24 August, 2009 14:49:47
Subject: Re: one liner in Windows to replace string
Tony Esposito wrote:
> I am happy that it works with double quotes BUT now, when I try to get all
> files in a directory with a certain extension, the following does not work ...
> perl -p -i.bak -e "'s/CONSTANT/VARIABLE/'" C:\***.txt
> does not like th leading * in the file name when I try to pull all .txt
>files ...
> Help again.
perl -p -i.bak -e "beg...@argv=map{glob}@ARGV}s/CONSTANT/VARIABLE/" C:\*.txt
-- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth,
Shawn
Programming is as much about organization and communication
as it is about coding.
I like Perl; it's the only language where you can bless your
thingy.
