Re^3: s// All Files In Directory

Learn to be good with the command line. Being saddled with Windows is no excuse; if you can't stand the Windows command line (I can't), install Cygwin.

-p   process line-by-line and print the results
-i   operate on files in place
-e   execute the following code 

Hence:

perl -p -i -e 's/foo/bar/g' *
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Re^4: s// All Files In Directory by perl.j (Pilgrim) on Apr 02, 2012 at 20:39 UTC
So `perl -p -i -e 's/5/6/g'` will do what I want? --perl.j	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: s// All Files In Directory by stevieb (Canon) on Apr 02, 2012 at 20:53 UTC
No. You have to add the file names you want to work with after the command. In your case you want to work with all files, so append an asterisk (). Also, add a file extension to 'i' if you want to create a backup: `perl -pi.bak -e 's/5/6/g;' ` ...will create a copy of each file with a .bak extension before performing the search/replace. If you only want to affect certain files, name them explicitly, or use glob patterns. For instance, the following will only work on files with a .txt extension: `perl -pi -e 's/5/6/g;' *.txt`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^6: s// All Files In Directory by Anonymous Monk on Apr 02, 2012 at 20:58 UTC
That depends entirely upon the shell. Bash will turn *.txt into a list of files. cmd.exe will not.	[reply]
Re^6: s// All Files In Directory by perl.j (Pilgrim) on Apr 02, 2012 at 22:54 UTC
This doesn't seem to be working... `Can't open *: Invalid argument.` --perl.j	[reply] [d/l]
Re^7: s// All Files In Directory by vagabonding electron (Curate) on Apr 03, 2012 at 09:53 UTC
Re^7: s// All Files In Directory by aaron_baugher (Curate) on Apr 03, 2012 at 11:41 UTC
Re^8: s// All Files In Directory by vagabonding electron (Curate) on Apr 03, 2012 at 11:53 UTC


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