perl replace multi files in. a folder

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This works

Perl -pi.bak -e "s/\\t/\t/g;" one.xml

But this doesnt work for all xmls in the folder

Perl -pi.bak -e "s/\\t/\t/g;" *.xml

Keep getting error cannot open *.xml

Have tried all sorts of things and recognise the * as a wildcard

Yes running the command on the windows command line from within the folder where the xmls are — user3168352, Apr 17 '14 at 09:44

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:26

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You are seeing the cannot open *.xml because, unlike Unix shells, the Windows CMD shell does not expand wild cards.

If you want to stay with cmd, you can form a for loop over files or you could switch to something more powerful like PowerShell and try this (untested): Perl -pi.bak -e "s/\\t/\t/g;" (Get-ChildItem *.xml | % { "$_" }).

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answered Apr 17 '14 at 09:47

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 17 '14 at 18:35

Unfortunately, windows cmd does not have the same power to expand wildcards as unix shells.

You can work around this though, by telling perl that you want to expand @ARGV using a glob

perl -i.bak -pe "BEGIN {@ARGV = map glob, @ARGV} s/\\t/\t/g;" *.xml

perl replace multi files in. a folder

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