>>>>> "Z" == Zakaria <z4k4ri4 / bigfoot.com> writes: Z> What ruby -pi expand to? To nothing. pigeon% ls bb* bb pigeon% pigeon% cat bb aa pigeon% pigeon% ruby -pi -e 'sub(/./, "x")' bb pigeon% pigeon% ls bb* bb pigeon% pigeon% cat bb xa pigeon% Guy Decoux