On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Pintér Tibor <tibyke at tibyke.hu> wrote: > perl -pi -e "s/foo/bar/" *.html You also have to give an extension to the command to get a backup. For this one it would basically be: perl -pi.old -e 's/foo/bar/' *.html... in addition to the no recursion thing.... -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell