On Thursday 25 April 2002 15:10, you wrote:
| I'm not quite sure what you're trying to do with this... but from what
| you've provided, the regular expression you wrote will only remove text
| matching "....sub html_base...." on a single line -- and not even the
| newline at the end. The '-pi' switches will grab a single line at a time
| from the currently open file to compare to the expression.
|
| It sounds like you've got a subroutine you're trying to remove from some
| files:
| sub html_base {
| ...
| }
exact, that's it.
but i've got the solution to that problem (i forgot to put the trailing 's'
in my post, but i used it and it did not work)
the solution is:
perl -p0i -e 's/sub html_base.*//s' *.cgi
it does exactly what i need, and is very fast.
thanks for your answer
Alain Scieur
| yes? If so, it might make more sense to make a quick-and-dirty perl
| script that will take the fileglob (*cgi), read one file at a time, and
| read that entire file into a single string, and then run the regexp you
| wrote against it, with the following addition:
| s/sub html_base[\s\S]*//s
| The trailing 's' will allow the regexp to look over newlines (\n) when
| matching.
|
| --Matthew
|
| On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 04:10:58 -0400, Alain wrote:
| > Hello all,
| >
| > I've the following problem:
| > I need to erase about 150 lines (always the same lines) at the end of a
| > serie of files.
| > What I have done in the shell is:
| > #perl -pi -e "s/sub html_base[\s\S]*//" *cgi
| >
| > But this command only erase one line at once. And I want to erase all
| > the lines in one time. Is there anybody who can help?
| >
| > Thanks a lot
| >
| > Alain Scieur
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