I am trying to replace a module using perl command line mode. But I am getting the following warning when I run shell(csh or sh). 
"Can't do inplace edit: . is not a regular file."

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my shell script is 
find . -name "*.c" > tomodify.txt
if [ -s tomodify.txt ]
then
cat tomodify.txt | xargs perl -pi.bak -e 's/name1/name2/' $1
fi

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Ofcourse the above script does the job, getting a bakup file after substitution, but I am getting the above said warning. I tried with -X option to avoid warnings, but no use. It runs at the shell $ prompt or % prompt. But if I run the shell script, I get the above warnings. I did search on inplace edit, but could not get a remedy. I am running on Sun solaris unix. 
Can you pl. help me?

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Thanks Ashok

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