Thanks for your speedy reply Bob. I tried your suggestion, but the same outcome: the command fails without any complaints. BTW, the files didn't have extensions. They are three test files (plain text) containing respectively "love, live and luve". The actual command that I tried was perl -i -e "s/ve/ver/" *.* Any other ideas I might try?
Regards, John ----- Original Message ---- From: Bob McConnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: John Degen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; beginners@perl.org Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 2:31:00 PM Subject: RE: [Perl 5.8.8 on WinXP] Command line usage Windows uses file extensions for a variety of reasons, so it expects the period in file names. In most cases, the file spec "*" will only return files with no extension, such as "README". Have you tried "*.*" instead? Bob McConnell > -----Original Message----- > From: John Degen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 8:26 AM > To: beginners@perl.org > Subject: [Perl 5.8.8 on WinXP] Command line usage > > Hello, > > I'm using Perl 5.8.8 from ActiveState on Windows XP. I'm > trying to accomplish a search and replace in a number of > files in the same directory from the command line (cmd.exe). > The problem is that the command perl -i -e "s/old/new/" * > fails silently, i.e. no changes take place. My question is: > does * indicate all files in the current directory (this did > work in the Windows version of sed I tried)? I cannot find > this in the docs or using Google. Or am I making another mistake? > > Thank you for your time. > > John Degen > > -- > Sane sicut lux seipsam, & tenebras manifestat, sic veritas > norma sui, & falsi est. -- Spinoza > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
