On Aug 9, 6:46 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chas Owens) wrote: > On 8/8/07, Jeff Pang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > snip> perl -pi -e '$i++;s/^.*$/something/ if $i==10' your_file > > snip > > There is no need to keep track of the number of lines with a separate > variable. Perl already does this with the $. variable. Also, a regex > that replaces everything is pointless, just assign to $_. > > perl -pi -le '$_ = "something" if $. == 10' your_file
So if this was in a script rather than a oneliner how would it work? I was playing and can not get it to work in an actual test script. Thanks; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
