Re^6: s// All Files In Directory

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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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