Paul Kraus wrote: > I want to replace all forward slashes with back slashes is a file. > Using a one liner I tried > > perl -I -i.bak -w -e 's!/!\\!g' map.bat
1) You don't need -I 2) You do need -p 3) You probably need to use double-quotes instead of single, due to Windows shell brain damage. 4) tr/// is an alternate to s///g you might consider: perl -pi.bak -e "tr./.\\." map.bat > > I get this error > useless use of a constant in void context at -e line 1. I think this is because Windows is passing the single quotes along to Perl, so it sees a single-quoted literal instead of a substitution operator. > > this is on a windows xp machine. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
