Randy W. Sims writes:
> On 12/20/2003 2:37 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to search for the word "status" in a group of files in a
> > directory and replace it with "status\n^L" where ^L is a page break
> > chatacter, In vi I can type it in using cntrl+l.
> >
> > I want to do this by
> >
> > perl -p -i.old -e 's/^STATUS$/STATUS\n(page break character)/' *
> >
> > How can I "write" the page break character (^L) on command line?
> >
>
> Isn't page break ascii 11, i.e. hex x0B?
No, its decimal 12, or 0x0c
> Try (after a backup):
>
> perl -p -i.old -e 's/^STATUS$/STATUS\n\x0B/' *
perl -p -i.old -e 's/^STATUS$/STATUS\n\x0c/' *
this is correct ----------^
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