On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Clay Fandre wrote: > Even though this won't work for the ftp problem, it is a valuable perl one-liner > that I have used more times than I can count. (No jokes please) It's especially > useful for changing URLs in a bunch of html docs. Include the i.bak option to > backup the file first. (just to be safe) Nope, can't make fun of you for that. It's a very useful one-liner. In case what Clay said wasn't particularly clear: perl -pi.bak -e 's/replacethis/withthis/' file will leave the original content of the file, intact, in file.bak. > For a list of some other useful one-liners: > http://www.unixguide.net/unix/perl_oneliners.shtml Sounds like good reading. Jima