On 8/12/07, Mr. Shawn H. Corey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: snip > >> perl -pi -le '$_ = "something" if $. == 10' your_file > > > > So if this was in a script rather than a oneliner how would it work? > > I was playing and can not get it to work in an actual test script. > > Not surprising since it's not correct. > > perl -pi -e '$_ = "something\n" if $. == 10' your_file >
Umm, what exactly is "not correct"? The use of -l removes the need to add "\n" in the assignment to $_. You can make an argument that it is inefficient to be calling chomp and join for every line of the file, but that doesn't make it wrong. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop/watch$ cat test 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop/watch$ perl -pi -le '$_ = "something" if $. == 10' test [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Desktop/watch$ cat test 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 something 1 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
