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thanks for all the answers! I keep getting the following errors: 
/(\w|[/: unmatched [] in regexp at tes2 line 12.

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The other error keeps popping up reference to checking of arguments but I am running it with two arguments at command line. My script name is tes2:
tes2 Oldfile Newfile 
Usage: tes2 from to

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Re3: Unix command working with Perl
by Hofmator (Curate) on May 31, 2002 at 14:45 UTC

    Update: Ahh, this was a comment to particle's code ... now I see ... nothing to see here

    /(\w|[/: unmatched [] in regexp at tes2 line 12.
    Aehmm, what regex?? If you show us all your code we might be able to help you ...

    -- Hofmator

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Re^3: Unix command working with Perl
by particle (Vicar) on May 31, 2002 at 14:55 UTC
    the \ should have been escaped... i didn't think that was necessary in brackets. i've updated my code.

    ~Particle *accelerates*

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