Wait a minute... did you accidently use $1, with a one, instead of $l, lower case "L"? Not here, but on your actual command line? These two characters look remarkably alike, to the point it's utterly confusing. My advice: don't ever use "l" (lower case "L") as the name for a variable without a very good reason.

Use any other name than $l (or rather, $1). It ought to work then. I see no reason why not. Oh, and "wra" looks like another typo to me, just like the lack of a slash between the "s" and the backslash. 

perl -i~ -pe 'if($ARGV ne $z){$f=$z=$ARGV;$f=~s/\.war$//;substr($_,-11
+)=$f.$/;}' *

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update: Hmm... I actually like this better: 

perl -i~ -pe 'if($ARGV ne $z){$f=$z=$ARGV;$f=~s/\.war$//;s/.{10}$/$f/}
+' *

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or this: 
perl -i~ -pe 'if($ARGV ne $z){$z=$ARGV; s/.{10}$/$z/; s/\.war$//}' *

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In reply to Re: Replacing text inside lots of files by bart
in thread Replacing text inside lots of files by harald

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