Re^3: Inplace editing, one liner, without a backup file?

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in thread Inplace editing, dos one liner, without a backup file?

Unlike the shells found on most Unix-like operating systems - the Windows command prompt ( and the MS-DOS command.com before it) does not expand the "wildcard" parameters before passing them as arguments to a program - it is left to the program itself to do that.

/J\

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Re^4: Inplace editing, one liner, without a backup file? by salva (Canon) on Aug 09, 2005 at 13:13 UTC
them, adding something like `BEGIN { @ARGV = map { glob $_ } @ARGV }` [download] to the one liner should do the trick.	[reply] [d/l]

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