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
– user3168352, Commented Apr 17, 2014 at 9:44

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 10:26:03Z

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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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Miller · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-17 18:35:38Z

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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

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