Re: Re: changing inside a file

this seems to work but I get this error

Can't do inplace edit without backup.
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Re: Re: Re: changing inside a file by waswas-fng (Curate) on Aug 26, 2002 at 19:53 UTC
`find . -name "*.html" -exec perl -pi.bak -e's/ old / new /' {} \; ;` This will put a <filename>.bak backup file in place for every file that gets updated.. you must be using Activestate perl huh? mine allows inplace without a backup.. -Waswas	[reply] [d/l]