Thanks to Sander for quick response, really appreciate. perl -pi -e 's/\*dollars\*/dollars/g' On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Stephanie C <stepchung@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi- I have many text files that has '*dollars*' word in the line. I want to > remove the '*'. I have tried the following syntax: > > perl -pi -e 's/*dollars*/dollars/g' filename (doesn't work, without '*' it > replaces the string fine, '*' seems to treat as a wild card) > > I have to use perl because it changes directly to the filename so I don't > have to redirect to a different filename and copy it back to original > filename as 'sed' does. > > 'sed' doesn't work either. > > Thanks for your help! > > Step _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu May 8 18:49:37 2008
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