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[ale] Perl question
- Subject: [ale] Perl question
- From: matthew.brown at cordata.net (Matthew Brown)
- Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 13:07:50 -0400
I am reading in the
Camel book (p.332) about the following command line:
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$ perl -p -i.bak -e
"s/foo/bar/;"
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Now, the way I read
it, it should take the file given to it (via??a command line as below), open
it, swithc all instances of 'foo' with 'bar', then close the file, giving you a
backup of the original file named 'originalfilename.bak'.?? Is this
right?
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The command??I
am running follows:
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$ find . -name
"*.php" -maxdepth 3 | perl -p -i.bak -e "s/foo/bar/;"
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On my box, this
simply tries to change 'foo' to 'bar' in the file _names_ handed to it.??
What am I missing?
??
Best regards,
Matthew Brown, President
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