Re: one liner for replacing under Windows?

From: "Xavier Noria" <[email protected]>> On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 9:56 AM,
Octavian Rasnita <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Is there a one-liner command that can replace a certain text with another
>> in
>> more files specified with wildcards like *.html that works under Windows
>> cmd?
>
> Since you ask this you probably know the Windows shell does not expand
> wildcards. There's a trick for Perl one-liners though (untested):
>
>   perl -e "@ARGV = glob(qq($ARGV[0])); s/foo/bar/ while <>"
>
> You see the idea.
>

Thank you but I don't think it works without writing a full perl program in
a single line that does that.

If I just replace the string in $_, the files are not updated.

If I also use -pi.bak parameter in order to do that, it gives an error
telling that the specified file (*.txt) can't be opened.

So I can't see another solution than opening the files, making the
replacement than writing the new content.

Thank you.

Octavian