Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 2) Unix shells expand wildcards such as *.htm; DOS does not. One way to get
> expansion is to use Jenda's G module, available e.g. from
> http://jenda.mccann.cz/#G or with PPM (location
> http://Jenda.McCann.cz/perl). Add "-MG" without the quotes to the
> environment variable PERL5OPT and you can use *.htm.

Philip,

Does this method have any shortcomings?

  perl -e "BEGIN{@ARGV=glob join(q( ), @ARGV)} s/f:/g:/gi" -pi.bak *.htm *.dat

--David


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