Re: one liner for replacing under Windows?

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Octavian Rasnita <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.

Absolutely, try putting a BEGIN block around (again untested):

   perl -pi.bak -e "BEGIN { @ARGV = glob(shift) } s/foo/bar/g" "*.html"

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