Ah yes, now the real stumper:
The line:
perl -pi -e 's/<provider-url>file:.*<\/provider-url>/REPLACED/' testfile.txt
does in fact work fine from the commandline in unix.
However, when it is called from a ksh script, it does not function. Any ideas? I have
tried many possible combinations that I can think of.
Thanks very much.
Randy
-----Original Message-----
From: drieux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 7:04 PM
To: Perl Beginners Mailing List
Subject: Re: command line search and replace
On Dec 30, 2003, at 4:51 PM, Randy Brown wrote:
> 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
you might want to revisit
perldoc perlretut
since what you are in the midst of is a regular expression
and it is not clear to me that you really wanted to assert
zero or more ":"
rather than say
zero or more "any characters"
which would have been
perl -pi -e "s/<provider-url>file:.*<\/provider-url>/REPLACED/g"
testfile.txt
"." is the "wild card" character, which you want to have
zero or more of, yes?
ciao
drieux
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