Sorry, my bad. Forgot the -e switch... perl -pi.bak -e 's|ReplaceThis|WithThis|' *
Rob -----Original Message----- From: Hanson, Rob Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 8:04 PM To: 'Perl'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Search and replace pattern in a file I think you will like this, it does exactly whay you described... perl -pi.bak 's|ReplaceThis|WithThis|' * This does everything you want, AND makes a backup of each file. You can only perform a substitution on a single line though (AFAIK). See perldoc perlrun for all of the details. WARNING: Make an extra backup of the files before doing this! It is easy to make a mistake and delete everything by accident. Rob -----Original Message----- From: Perl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 6:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Search and replace pattern in a file Hi, here is the situation i have : i have a long list of files in a directory. i have to search and replace a particular pattern in each file. since a file cannot be read and written to at the same time, what's the best way of doing the search and replace ? i take this approach of doing the search and replace and then writing the contents into a new temporary file. then i close both the files. thereafter i write the contents of the temporary file into the original file. i am sure, there is a better efficient way of doing it. can anybody let me know. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
