> "Eric" == Eric Veith writes:
Eric> sudo perl -e 'open($fh, "<", "/tmp/foo"); @f = <$fh>; close($fh);
open($fh,
Eric> ">", "/tmp/foo"); foreach(@f) { s/^(Key1=).*/$1NewValue1/; print $fh $_; }
Eric> close($fh);'
Eric> As always, TIMTOWTDI.
Much easier way is in-place editing:
perl -pi.ba
x27;ll probably know that already. :-)
-- Eric
Alpesh Naik wrote on 07/09/2009 12:23:54 PM:
> From:
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> Alpesh Naik
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> To:
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> Eric Veith/Germany/i...@ibmde
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> Date:
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> 07/09/2009 12:23 PM
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> Subject:
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> Re: Edit a config file usi
sudo perl -e 'open($fh, "<", "/tmp/foo"); @f = <$fh>; close($fh); open($fh,
">", "/tmp/foo"); foreach(@f) { s/^(Key1=).*/$1NewValue1/; print $fh $_; }
close($fh);'
As always, TIMTOWTDI.
HTH,
-- Eric,
Alpesh Naik wrote on 07/09/2009 11:34:43 AM:
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> Alpesh Naik
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> To:
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On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Alpesh Naik wrote:
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> For eg: below is what I have in the config file "configfile.cfg".
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> Key1=OldValue1
> Key2=OldValue2
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> I want to search for "Key1" and change "OldValue1" to "NewValue1"
Read the content into memory, search the key (i.e, use a regex) and
rep
