One-liner search and replace with multiple files...on Windows.

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks.

After find the following node, One-Liner for In Place Text Replacement of Multiple Files, I was wondering if there was a solution for Windows users? For example,

perl -pi.bak -e "s/cheese/soup/g" *.txt
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...was unsuccessful so I tried the following:

perl -pi.bak -e "for(<*.txt>) {s/cheese/soup/g}"
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...but Perl displays the following response:

-i used with no filenames on the command line, reading from STDIN.

Assuming this is possible on a Windows machine, any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Sarah.

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Re: One-liner search and replace with multiple files...on Windows. by choroba (Cardinal) on Dec 03, 2016 at 20:44 UTC
On Windows, `.txt` isn't expanded by the shell as in Linux. But Perl can expand it itself: just use glob. `perl -pi.bak -e "BEGIN { @ARGV = map glob, @ARGV } s/cheese/soup/g" . +txt` [download] Don't use filenames containing spaces or wildcard characters with this, though. ($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-\|\|-\|5+lengthSq)`"S\|oS2"`map{chr \|+ord }map{substrSq`S_+\|`\|}3E\|-\|`7**2-3:)=~y+S\|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a, [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: One-liner search and replace with multiple files...on Windows. by afoken (Chancellor) on Dec 04, 2016 at 09:27 UTC
On Windows, *.txt isn't expanded by the shell as in Linux. But Perl can expand it itself: just use glob. There is a module for that: Win32::Autoglob. With a minor patch, it would also work on the nearly-dead other Microsoft operating systems MS-DOS and OS/2 (see Re^3: Perl Rename). Alexander -- Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)	[reply]
Re: One-liner search and replace with multiple files...on Windows. by Laurent_R (Canon) on Dec 03, 2016 at 21:48 UTC
Or use `bash` under Windows.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: One-liner search and replace with multiple files...on Windows. by Marshall (Canon) on Dec 05, 2016 at 00:00 UTC
Perhaps look at Win32::Autoglob?. The Windows shell doesn't do what the Unix shell does in regards to globbing.	[reply]