Search and Replace not working

P0w3rK!d has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,
I am trying to run this on W2K (unfortunately) and Perl version 5.005_03.
perl -pe 's/FOO/123/g' in.txt > out.txt
where in.txt is:

-a = fuhergrg
-b = awerh9w8eh
-c = rgiuhreg
-d = C:\tmp\FOO.txt
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The output of the file never changes. I tried various re's and had no luck. What am I doing wrong here?

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Re: Search and Replace not working by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Oct 07, 2002 at 17:50 UTC
Try `perl -pe "s/FOO/123/g" in.txt > out.txt`. Winders wants double quotes on the command line. After Compline, Zaxo	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Search and Replace not working by Helter (Chaplain) on Oct 07, 2002 at 17:52 UTC
Updated: The shell will getcha every time! I can't really offer much help except I just made a file with the contents above and than ran the command line given (without the redirect): `perl -pe 's/FOO/123/g' blah.txt -a = fuhergrg -b = awerh9w8eh -c = rgiuhreg -d = C:\tmp\123.txt ------------ Contents of blah.txt >more blah.txt -a = fuhergrg -b = awerh9w8eh -c = rgiuhreg -d = C:\tmp\FOO.txt` [download] As you can see, the FOO changed to 123, is this the ACTUAL code you are trying to run, or have you cleansed it for the site?	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Search and Replace not working by semio (Friar) on Oct 08, 2002 at 03:34 UTC
UPDATE: Am I imagining things or did I not see the first reply by Zaxo? Anyhow, my apologies. Hi P0w3rK!d On Win2k, the following one-liner may give you what you're looking for: `C:\>perl -pe "s/FOO/123/g;" in.txt -a = fuhergrg -b = awerh9w8eh -c = rgiuhreg -d = C:\tmp\123.txt` [download] Hope this helps. cheers, -semio	[reply] [d/l]