Re^2: search and replace strings in different files in a directory

Dear McA,

Thanks a mil for your help with command line editing and sorry for not saying thanks a wee bit earlier.

The script ran smoothly and did everything as expected. However, I've been running the script via cygwin and was wondering if I could just transform it into a batch file (for all those who do not use cygwin).

I am a bit concerned if *.xml would be interpreted correctly by a WIN/DOS system.

Thanks a mil again for the cmd-solution.

Looking forward to your reply

Kind regards

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Re^3: search and replace strings in different files in a directory by afoken (Chancellor) on Aug 14, 2014 at 19:16 UTC
I am a bit concerned if *.xml would be interpreted correctly by a WIN/DOS system. Good point. DOS, Windows and OS/2 leave resolving wildcards to the application, whereas Unix and friends resolve wildcards in the shell. (See also Re^3: Perl Rename.) Luckily, someone has already taken care of this: Win32::Autoglob. Win32::Autoglob also "just works" (by doing nothing) on other platforms than Windows. (Unfortunately, this means Win32::Autoglob does NOT work as expected for DOS and OS/2, but as both platforms went the way of the dodo, this does not harm many people.) Alexander -- Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)	[reply]

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Re^3: search and replace strings in different files in a directory
by afoken (Chancellor) on Aug 14, 2014 at 19:16 UTC

I am a bit concerned if *.xml would be interpreted correctly by a WIN/DOS system.

Good point. DOS, Windows and OS/2 leave resolving wildcards to the application, whereas Unix and friends resolve wildcards in the shell. (See also Re^3: Perl Rename.) Luckily, someone has already taken care of this: Win32::Autoglob. Win32::Autoglob also "just works" (by doing nothing) on other platforms than Windows. (Unfortunately, this means Win32::Autoglob does NOT work as expected for DOS and OS/2, but as both platforms went the way of the dodo, this does not harm many people.)

Alexander

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Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)

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