Thanks. I wasn't aware of exactly how to use the "one liners." This will need to be called from with in a CGI script so I'm using system: 
# Backup existing index.html file and then edit it
my $edit = "perl -pi.bak -e 's/Old Spotlight/Product Spotlight/' /var/
+www/html/acs/new/index.html";
system ($edit);

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I kept getting sysntax errors when trying to make the call directly from the script. Is this the correct usage?

This is being developed so a client can make certain changes to his index.html file from his site. I doesn't want to be bothered with or learning how to actually edit any html code.From a security stand point, I'm only going to allow word characters to be passed to the call.Will this be OK?

Thanks again
Joe

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