command line search and replace

From: Randy Brown (rbrown2_at_amdocs.com)
Date: 12/31/03 

Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 18:51:50 -0600
To: <beginners@perl.org>

Hi all,

When I try the following, perl reads the * as a literal character, instead of my intent as a global value. Anyone see what I am missing?

 perl -pi -e "s/<provider-url>file:*<\/provider-url>/REPLACED/g" testfile.txt

In the file testfile.txt, the line will be something like this: <provider-url>file:/opt/usr/bin/somewhere</provider-url>

I want to replace /opt/usr/bin/somewhere with something else, but I cannot assume what the value between <provider-url>file: and </provider-url> will be.

Thanks for any advice.

Randy

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