From: eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
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Subject: Re: search and replace on multiple files
Date: 14 Mar 2000 11:03:00 GMT
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Martin Stromberg (eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se) wrote:
: Perl: "perl -i -ne 's/old text/new text/; print' one_file.txt
: another_file.txt"

Make that "perl -i.bak -ne 's/old text/new text/; print' one_file.txt
another_file.txt" and you have backups.


Right,

							MartinS