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>----- Original Message ----
>From: Paul Lalli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: beginners@perl.org
>Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 6:47:05 PM
>Subject: Re: Command line usage
>
>On Jun 18, 10:50 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Degen) wrote:
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>> 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.
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>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.
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>perl -pi.bkp -e"BEGIN { @ARGV = glob($ARGV[0]); } s/old/new/;" *
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>Hope this helps,
>Paul Lalli
Thank you all for your responses. Paul's suggestion above is the winner. The
command works, creates a neat backup file and does what it's told. I'll be
checking the docs to see *why* it works:)
Best regards,
John Degen
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