From: "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Purshottam Chandak wrote:
> >
> > perl -ipe "s/yak/bak/g" `dir *.yak` is supposed to allow me to do a
> > search and replace on all the .yak files in the directory in which I
> > am working. It doesn't; I get all sorts of errors. I've tried
> > modifications of said string- I've tried pipes,
> >
> > I've tried separating the command line parameters with individual
> > dashes, I've tried turning the `dir *.yak` command into a bat file
> > and calling it like:
> >
> > perl -i -p -e "s/yak/bak/g" `dir.bat`
> >
> > All to no avail. Does anyone understand these parameter things well
> > enough to help me?
>
>
> It looks like you are trying to do this on Windows.
>
> perl -pi -e"BEGIN{@ARGV=<*.yak>};s/yak/bak/g"
Apropos if I run this on Unix, what do I get ?
perl -e 'print "BEGIN\nparam=";print(join("\nparam=",
@ARGV));print "\nEND\n"' `ls`
Do I get all the file names in $ARGV[0] or does it split the ls
output?
Why I ask .... I wrote a module that allows you to give Perl scripts
the parameters under Windows (almost) like under Unix (support
for single quotes, backticks, globing, etc. etc.).
http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz/#G
I don't have any Unix by hand so I'm not sure what's the expected
behaviour in this case.
Thanks, Jenda
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