At 11:34 AM 5/14/2003 -0400, you wrote:
sure, just tell perl to look for 600 with a break/blank space at the beginning of it: perl -i.bak -pe 's/\b600/86400/g' *
This will replace the blank and the 600 with 86400. You might want to put a blank in the replacement string.
Regards, Ricahrd.