On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 03:42:31PM +0000, Martyn Pearce wrote: > > Tim Haynes writes: > | Not quite. It seems to ignore the filename on the end of the #! line, and > | you forgot my mod to make it do the right thing re: 'rest of line' : > | > | #!/usr/bin/perl -npi.bak > | > | s/^root:[^:]*:(.*)$/root:pants:\1/o > > That should be $1 in the replacement. \1 works for now only for backwards > compatibility, and not always even then. Use $1. But you shouldn't need > the capture-replace at all:
Hmmm, it's been that way for a while ;) > /^root:[^:]*:/root:pants:/ > > The /o doesn't get you anything here, since you're not interpolating any > vars. My first attempt was exactly that (well unless I've misunderstood something about the lack of 's/'); it messes up the end of line, basically everything beyond the bit the LHS matches. Hence the above amendment after some testing. This might be a 5.005_03 problem, of course. ~Tim -- | Geek Code: GCS dpu s-:+ a-- C++++ UBLUAVHSC++++ P+++ L++ E--- W+++(--) N++ | w--- O- M-- V-- PS PGP++ t--- X+(-) b D+ G e++(*) h++(*) r--- y- | The sun is melting over the hills, | http://piglet.is.dreaming.org/ | All our roads are waiting / To be revealed | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
