RE: one liner in Windows to replace string

2009-08-25 Thread Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- CFS
> -Original Message- > From: Shawn H. Corey [mailto:shawnhco...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 11:57 > To: Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- CFS > Cc: Tony Esposito; Beginners Perl > Subject: Re: one liner in Windows to replace string

RE: one liner in Windows to replace string

2009-08-25 Thread Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- CFS
> -Original Message- > From: Shawn H. Corey [mailto:shawnhco...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 11:00 > To: Tony Esposito > Cc: Beginners Perl > Subject: Re: one liner in Windows to replace string > > Tony Esposito wrote: > > perl -p -i.b

RE: one liner in Windows to replace string

2009-08-25 Thread Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- CFS
ot; ; Beginners Perl Sent: Monday, 24 August, 2009 14:49:47 Subject: Re: one liner in Windows to replace string Tony Esposito wrote: > I am happy that it works with double quotes BUT now, when I try to get all files in a directory with a certain extens

RE: one liner in Windows to replace string

2009-08-25 Thread Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- CFS
to ; Beginners Perl Sent: Monday, 24 August, 2009 12:57:27 Subject: Re: one liner in Windows to replace string Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- CFS wrote: > I ran under windows with what Tony sent, both the cmd and a korn > shell a

RE: one liner in Windows to replace string

2009-08-25 Thread Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- CFS
> -Original Message- > From: Tony Esposito [mailto:tony1234567...@yahoo.co.uk] > Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 10:46 > To: Beginners Perl > Cc: tony1234567...@yahoo.co.uk > Subject: one liner in Windows to replace string > > perl -p -i.bak -e 's/CO

Re: one liner in Windows to replace string

2009-08-24 Thread Shawn H. Corey
Telemachus wrote: Ok, not to be a jerk, but look at it this way: it's clear that Windows + one-liners are not going well. In the time we've all gone back and forth on this, you could have written a 10 line script and run it about 20 times. Pick your battles, I say. True, but it means "A Poor

Re: one liner in Windows to replace string

2009-08-24 Thread Telemachus
On Mon Aug 24 2009 @ 8:08, Tony Esposito wrote: > Looks good but it bombs ... the Perl interpreter crashes from the DOS prompt > ... using version 5.10.0 build 1005 from ActiveState. > > But it was better than what I had, that's for sure > > This makes for a bit of a mind teaser thanks to it be

Re: one liner in Windows to replace string

2009-08-24 Thread Tony Esposito
ndoze ... :-) From: Shawn H. Corey To: Tony Esposito Cc: "Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- CFS" ; Beginners Perl Sent: Monday, 24 August, 2009 14:49:47 Subject: Re: one liner in Windows to replace string Tony Esposito wrote: > I am happy that it works with double quotes BUT

Re: one liner in Windows to replace string

2009-08-24 Thread Tony Esposito
x27;)"  # does not work -- compilation error ... ?? From: Bob McConnell To: Tony Esposito ; Shawn H. Corey ; "Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- CFS" Cc: Beginners Perl Sent: Monday, 24 August, 2009 14:39:57 Subject: RE: one liner in Windows to replace s

Re: one liner in Windows to replace string

2009-08-24 Thread Shawn H. Corey
Tony Esposito wrote: I am happy that it works with double quotes BUT now, when I try to get all files in a directory with a certain extension, the following does not work ... perl -p -i.bak -e "'s/CONSTANT/VARIABLE/'" C:\***.txt does not like th leading * in the file name when I try to pull

RE: one liner in Windows to replace string

2009-08-24 Thread Bob McConnell
. Corey; Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- CFS Cc: Beginners Perl Subject: Re: one liner in Windows to replace string I am happy that it works with double quotes BUT now, when I try to get all files in a directory with a certain extension, the following does not work ... perl -p -i.bak

Re: one liner in Windows to replace string

2009-08-24 Thread Tony Esposito
txt files ... Help again. From: Shawn H. Corey To: "Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- CFS" Cc: Tony Esposito ; Beginners Perl Sent: Monday, 24 August, 2009 12:57:27 Subject: Re: one liner in Windows to replace string Wagner, David

Re: one liner in Windows to replace string

2009-08-24 Thread Shawn H. Corey
Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- CFS wrote: I ran under windows with what Tony sent, both the cmd and a korn shell and both worked and updated as expected.. If you have any questions and/or problems, please let me know. Thanks. What version of Windows?

Re: one liner in Windows to replace string

2009-08-24 Thread Telemachus
On Mon Aug 24 2009 @ 4:45, Tony Esposito wrote: > perl -p -i.bak -e 's/CONSTANT/VARIABLE/' C:\test.txt > > Trying to replace a string with this one line perl ... in Windows it does not > seem to work ... > > File test.txt contents is ... > > CONSTANT 100 > CONSTANT 200 > > nothing changes ...

Re: one liner in Windows to replace string

2009-08-24 Thread Shawn H. Corey
Tony Esposito wrote: perl -p -i.bak -e 's/CONSTANT/VARIABLE/' C:\test.txt Trying to replace a string with this one line perl ... in Windows it does not seem to work ... File test.txt contents is ... CONSTANT 100 CONSTANT 200 nothing changes ... acts as if it does not 'see' the CONSTANT strin

one liner in Windows to replace string

2009-08-24 Thread Tony Esposito
perl -p -i.bak -e 's/CONSTANT/VARIABLE/' C:\test.txt Trying to replace a string with this one line perl ... in Windows it does not seem to work ... File test.txt contents is ... CONSTANT 100 CONSTANT 200 nothing changes ... acts as if it does not 'see' the CONSTANT string. Help because it loo