Re^5: s// All Files In Directory

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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

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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
To tame the cmd you could use the brilliant idea which I read by BrowserUK (cannot find the link just now) - the following one-liner works on my windows pc: `perl -pi.bak -e "BEGIN{@ARGV=map{glob}@ARGV;}s/5/6/g;" *` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^7: s// All Files In Directory by aaron_baugher (Curate) on Apr 03, 2012 at 11:41 UTC
A wild guess: On Windows, you used to have to use . to match all files, while a single * would only match files with no extension. Is that still the case? Aaron B. My Woefully Neglected Blog, where I occasionally mention Perl.	[reply]
Re^8: s// All Files In Directory by vagabonding electron (Curate) on Apr 03, 2012 at 11:53 UTC
~~Yes.~~ Update:No. "" matches all files and "." the files with extension as shown below. With the files Text1.txt, Text2 and Test in the ordner C:/TEMP/TEMP/TEMP: `C:\Perl\bin>perl -le "BEGIN{@ARGV=map{glob}@ARGV;}print for @ARGV" C:/ +TEMP/TEMP/TEMP/.* C:/TEMP/TEMP/TEMP/Text1.txt C:/TEMP/TEMP/TEMP/Text2.txt C:\Perl\bin>perl -le "BEGIN{@ARGV=map{glob}@ARGV;}print for @ARGV" C:/ +TEMP/TEMP/TEMP/* C:/TEMP/TEMP/TEMP/Test C:/TEMP/TEMP/TEMP/Text1.txt C:/TEMP/TEMP/TEMP/Text2.txt` [download] The problem is - imho - the different behavior of globbing in the unix shell and under windows. With `BEGIN{@ARGV=map{glob}@ARGV;}` it can be treated.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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