Hi John, No good. The file remains unchanged :(
But thank you anyway. Warm Regards, MARG John W. Krahn wrote: > MARG wrote: > >>John W. Krahn wrote: >> >>>MARG wrote: >>> >>> >>>>I'm trying to change the string in .bash_profile: >>>>PATH=$PATH:/home/bin >>>> >>>>to >>>>PATH=$PATH/home/bin:/usr/local/httpd/bin >>>> >>>>I'm using the following: >>>>perl -pi~ -e 's/PATH=$PATH/home/bin/PATH=$PATH/home/bin:/usr/local/httpd/bin >>>>' .bash_profile >>>> >>>>but i'm getting a lot of errors. >>>> >>>>What might be wrong ? >>> >>>Because the pattern and replacement string contain the slash (/) character >>>you >>>have to use a different delimiter for the substitution operator. Because the >>>pattern and replacement string are interpolated $PATH is changed to '' in >>>both. >>> >>>perl -pi~ -e's~^(PATH=\$PATH/home/bin)~$1:/usr/local/httpd/bin~' >>>.bash_profile >> >>Thank you for your ansewer. >> >>I don't have any error anymore, but the file remains unchanged :( >> >>Any ideas ? > > > Perhaps the pattern was not found? Maybe this will work better: > > perl -pi~ -e's~(\bPATH=\$PATH/home/bin)~$1:/usr/local/httpd/bin~' > .bash_profile > > > John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
