[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ronald Yacketta) writes:
> Folks,
>
> looking for a clean way to change a value in a file on the fly before it is
> processed (ran).
> I have a perl script that kicks off several resource scripts (.scr) that are
> NOT a valid shell script and can not be ran from the command line alone. I
> need a way to modify these .scr scripts on the fly to change 2 values in the
> script based on user supplied input to the .pl script.
>
> IE:
>
> user enters a SID of _QAP2, but all the .scr files have a SID of _VALUTEST
> I need to be able to change the SID in the .scr on the fly before it is ran.
>
> Regards,
> Ron
Look at the -i flag. It takes an optional argument, but it
sounds like you don't want to keep a backup so use it
without the arg. Think about it carefully. And test
**VERY** carefully. If you get your code wrong, you've
messed it up for good. Keep backups. This is a very
*powerful* statement. In the right hands it's very good,
else it's very bad
Something like this might work.
perl -e s/_VALUETEST/_QAP2/g -i original.scr
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