On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 15:22:39 +0530, Chandrakant Reddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I want to replace all occurances of 'and' with '&' in all the given files
In-place with backup in filename.bk: perl -pi'*.bk' -e 's/\band\b/&/g' filenames > Here the problem is the files are owned by different users with > different permissions. But now all the files are owned by root and > also many of the files with changed permission. i don't want to > change the original ownership and permission of the file. Run your script as root? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>