Find and replace crossing in muliple dirs. 1

[timmy01]

Find and replace crossing in muliple dirs.

sh-3.00$ perl -pi -e 's/print"123/echo"abc/' *
Can't do inplace edit: dir1 is not a regular file.
Can't do inplace edit: dir1 is not a regular file, <> line 3352.

how can i find and replace the files located in dir1 and dir2?

 

[travs69]

maybe it's me.. but I have no clue what you are trying to do and the provide code doesn't clear it up for me either.

 

[KevinADC]

I got a feeling it's the use of "*" at the end. That might need to be replaced with something that returns a list of files instead of everything.

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- Kevin, perl coder unexceptional!

 

[timmy01]

@travs69 it does seem unclear to me at all! but anywayz...
again, what i try to do is change content of files located it
different directories....

@KevinADC maybe you dont know but * stand for all / wildcard
if i take this away than i have to specify all the files and that is exactly NOT what i want...

is it really so hard to understand!!!!!!!!!

 

[stevexff]

timmy01

I think Kevin does know what a wildcard is. In fact, from my own observations of this forum, what he doesn't know about perl is hardly worth writing down.

The point he is trying to make to you, however is that your wild card includes everything - '.', '..', other directories etc. You need to put something in your code so that it only looks at files.

Is that

really so hard to understand!!!!!!!!!

Steve

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