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Substitution Operator Problems
chgit is just a one line script that runs your perl command except with input variables. Thanks for your help, everything seems to be working. -
Substitution Operator Problems
Actually, my command did work after all. I was testing in one of my test directories and forgot that UNIX/Linux is case sensitive. The command '$ chgit leia anakin' could not work because the word was LEIA (uppercase). So everything appears to be just fine. Thanks again -
Substitution Operator Problems
The script that I created, 'chgit' would be used on the command line like this. $ chgit leia anakin leia is an example of the old phrase to be replaced. anakin is an example of the new phrase to be used. -
Substitution Operator Problems
I am devising a method to send two values to a script that will does your command. script name: cngit perl -p -i -e 'BEGIN{@ARGV = grep -T, @ARGV} s|$1|$2|g' * But it doesn't seem to be working. Any ideas -
Substitution Operator Problems
Super - it worked like a champ!!!!!!!! [bigsmile] -
Substitution Operator Problems
I am trying to do a global replacement of a value in a directory. The command I am using is "perl -p -i -e 's|<old text>|<new text>|g' *" This of course touches all files in the directory and I am getting errors on executable programs that it pass through. Is there a way to select just the...
