On Jun 18, 10:50 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Degen) wrote:
> I think I'm out of luck with this OS;) Your suggestion for creating a backup
> file gave the same result: no error, no change in the files. The output of
> 'perl -le"print for @ARGV" *' is * and the other is *.*. Funny though that
> sed *does* work.
Ah. Well there's your problem. The command line interpreter you're
running doesn't expand wildcards. That's why Perl wasn't giving you
any errors - it had nothing to do because there was no file named "*"
that it could find... You'll have to expand the wildcard from within
Perl.
perl -pi.bkp -e"BEGIN { @ARGV = glob($ARGV[0]); } s/old/new/;" *
Hope this helps,
Paul Lalli
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