On Dec 31, 2003, at 8:22 AM, Randy Brown wrote:
Ah yes, now the real stumper:
The line:
perl -pi -e 's/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 trie
tions that I can think of.
Thanks very much.
Randy
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Subject: Re: command line search and replace
On Dec 30, 2003, at 4:51 PM, Randy Brown wrote:
> When
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/file:*<\/provider-url>/REPLACED/g"
testfile.txt
you might want to revisit
perldoc perlretut
