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Substitution Operator Problems
I am trying to do a global replacement of a value in a directory. The command I am using is "perl -p -i -e 's|<old text>|<new text>|g' *" This of course touches all files in the directory and I am getting errors on executable programs that it pass through. Is there a way to select just the...
