On 19 Sep 2002 at 18:48, Greg Schiedler wrote:
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
$username=$ARGV[0];
$password=$ARGV[1];
$newpassword=$ARGV[2];
#
perl -pi -e
's/^($username)(\s+.*)($password)(.*)$/${1}${2}$newpassword${4}/'
users-file.txt
You're already in perl so you don't need to call it again.
I found this code snipit listed below that will edit a users file in place.
It works great via the command line. I'm trying to pass the arguments to
the script named edit.pl and it will not work if called via a system call ie:
system (perl -pi -e
