On Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:51:11 +1000, "david" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Looks like it's time to stop avoiding perl. (thanks Gavin). > perl -i -pe 's/1\n/1/' test > > vim does work, and I just realised that it can be scripted - I should > have checked instead of ass-uming. The things you can learn by asking.
There's a really good book that's been out for a few years called "Minimal Perl" by Tim Maher. Teaches *nix people who already know a touch of shell/grep/awk/sed how to rapidly get up to speed on Perl as a command line tool, rather than taking the approach of a lot of books (which is to teach Perl as a programming language). If I had to migrate to Waziristan tomorrow and was only allowed to take 5 books, it'd be one of them (together with "Vi Improved - Vim" by Oualline); see the book reviews on Amazon for other superlatives. :-) -- Sonia Hamilton -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
