in reply to File Globbing in Windows One-Liner

Windows does not work with the equivalent command line:

Technically, it's a question of which shell you are using.

What am I missing

Hard to tell, you didn't show what's giving the error.

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Re^2: File Globbing in Windows One-Liner
by roho (Bishop) on Jul 21, 2009 at 08:14 UTC
    I am using ActiveState Perl 5.10 on Windows Vista in a command window initiated by cmd.exe.
    The error is produced by the Perl one-liner:

    perl -p -i -e "s/old/new/" *.txt

    "Its not how hard you work, its how much you get done."

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      There's no syntax error in that. You said you tried stuff that gave you "The syntax of the command is incorrect."

      By the way, -i with no extension doesn't work in Windows.

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        Maybe perl.exe is not installed on the Windows machine?

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