On Jun 18, 8:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Degen) wrote: > 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?
Windows has never let me replace files inline - that is, you can't not give an extension for the -i option. You have to provide it with an extension so that the original files are saved as backups. (However, it's always given me an error when I've tried - not sure why you're not getting one). try: perl -i.bkp -e"s/ve/ver/" *.* You can also run a quick test to determine what * and *.* mean in Windows by something like this: perl -le"print for @ARGV" * perl -le"print for @ARGV" *.* Paul Lalli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
