> "Steven" == Steven M Klass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Steven> Open file
open FILE, " Start tool
open TOOL, "|my_tool with params here" or die;
Steven> Read line by line, edit as neccessary
while () {
s/this/that/;
Steven> Feed line by line my data into the tool
print TOOL $_;
}
Hi all
Ok, my tool is comming along nicely, but here is where I am stuck at. I
currently am opening a file and reading the contents. Then I open a second
file, where I put my modification to the first file. Then this file is fed to
the destination tool. I think this is a BIT redunda
"Steven M. Klass" wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Here is the general problem. I have a file that I need to edit but can't.
im not sure i follow you here, making a backup copy is not an option?
perl -pi.bak -e 's/foo/bar/g' weird_uneditable_file;some_app
weird_uneditable_file;mv weird_uneditab
"Steven M. Klass" wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Here is the general problem. I have a file that I need to edit but can't.
> That file is then fed into another program. Think of the file that I want to
> edit is like a makefile, that I want to use after I tweak it a bit. The
> general idea wo
Hi all,
Here is the general problem. I have a file that I need to edit but can't.
That file is then fed into another program. Think of the file that I want to
edit is like a makefile, that I want to use after I tweak it a bit. The
general idea would be:
1) Find out what needs to be
