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in reply to Re: File Globbing in Windows One-Liner
in thread File Globbing in Windows One-Liner

I am using ActiveState Perl 5.10 on Windows Vista in a command window initiated by cmd.exe.
The error is produced by the Perl one-liner:

perl -p -i -e "s/old/new/" *.txt

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