Hi,
I need to find and replace a string(regular
expression) in a file.
Is there anyway to do in shell programming.
(I dont want to use sed).
Also, I saw acommand line option in perl.
It is as follows
perl -pi -e 's/findtext/replacetext/g' myinput.txt
This works well with perl in unix environment.
But in windows environment, perl gives the error message
saying that,
"Can't do inplace edit without backup".
I searched in google for this, and was told that the option
perl -pi.bak -e 's/findtext/replacetext/g' myinput.txt
will work out.
I tried with that.
Still it does, not work. It just copies the original file
in the name myinput.txt.bak.
If anybody has a solution, please tell me..
Thanks and regards,
carti
