On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:39:23AM +0100, William Leese wrote: > Hi, > > i'm trying to write a simple script that will do several things: > > 1) merge 3 files in a predefined order > > 2) replace a few words in one of the files to be merged, the values with > which the words will be replaced must be given(/requested).
Try this: $perl -i.orig -pe 's/\bfoo\b/bar/g' *.[Cchy] Rename all "foo" to "bar" in all files ending with C, c, h or y. Backup-copies will be called *.orig -- Thomas Guettler Office: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.interface-business.de Private:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://yi.org/guettli
