Hi I am trying to make this into a script so that i can create a batch file to run it. perl -pi -e 's/\/Im0\ Do//g' X:\path\to\files\*.pdf It actually removes the watermark from a pdf file.I am just trying to wonder how to do an inplace edit and how to specify the substitution. Thanks for your help

Sandhya

Update: I tried editing the responses to see if that would work.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

my @files =  <H:\*.pdf>;
@ARGV = @files;

$^I = '';
while ( <> ) {
    s/\/Im0 Do//g;
    print;
}

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It says cannot do inplace edit without backup at line 9

Update

It compiles and runs without gitch, but the pdf pages are blank and the permissions have changed to give write privilege to everyone i think.

UPDATE, I found this.http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/perl-win32-users/3562086..would someone like to take a shot at figuring out whats wrong?

UPDATE

FINALLY GOT IT TO WORK!!!! 
#!/usr/bin/perl
BEGIN {(*STDERR = *STDOUT) || die;}
use diagnostics;
use warnings;
use strict;
$| = 1;
my @files =  <H:\*.pdf>;
@ARGV = @files;
$^I = '~';
while (<>)
{
binmode ARGVOUT if $. == 1;    s/\/Im0 Do//g;    
print;
}

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