I would recommend getting a strong grasp of Perl before you start trying to make one-liners for problems like this, since you can end up making a simple problem much more complicated. What's wrong with this:
#################### use strict; use warnings; open(OUTFILE,">>script1") || die "Couldn't open script1 for writing!\n"; print OUTFILE "ddd\n"; close OUTFILE; #################### -----Original Message----- From: sadman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 2:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Newbe needs help Hi all can anyone help with a direct command line syntax for the following im trying to add text to the end of the last line in a text file like so aaa bbb ccc Wishing to add ddd on the end of this list. I have tried the following but it doesnt have quite the desired effect any help would be good. perl -pi -e s/'$'/'ddd'/g script1 This gives me this aaaddd dddbbbddd dddcccddd dddddd ddd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
