Ala Qumsieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I came up with this: > perl -aF"\n" -lp0 -i -e '$_=join$\,[EMAIL PROTECTED]' in.file > > But then, I remembered Eugene's (in)famous solution to > reverse sort, but couldn't get it to work: > > perl -pi -e '$x=$_.$x}{$_=$x' in.file > > This prints to screen, not back to the file. > Any takers?
(It prints to screen because the special output file is no longer select()ed. But you all knew that.) My take: perl -ni -e 'eof&&print;$\=$_.$\' in.file Eirik -- GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions. -- Doug Gwyn (in comp.unix.wizards on June 22, 1991)