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Olivier Nicole writes:

>  > #find /dir/to/htmlfile -name *.html -exec perl -p -i -e
>  > "s/nagual.st/nagual.nl/g;" {} \;
>  
>  You should escape the * that you pass to find:
>  
>  -name \*.html

	Or quote it:

	find /dir/to/htmlfile -name "*.html"



				Robert Huff