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Old 09-24-2012
perl: search replace in multiple files

When I use special characters the command to replace multiple files with a string pattern does nt work.

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This works

Code:
perl -pi -e 's/100/test/g' *

This does nt work
Code:
perl -pi -e 's /\'100\'\,\'111\' /\&test/g' *


Last edited by jim mcnamara; 09-24-2012 at 02:52 PM..
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Old 09-24-2012
Code:
perl -pi -e "s/'100','111' /&test/g" *

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