Topic: Perl help

[Darrell May]

I need to open a text file, perform a substitution on a word and save the file.

Just as an example, lets say I want to open /etc/lilo.conf and change every occurance of the word 'e-smith' to 'mitel'.  Again, just a file example.

[root@e-smith lilo.conf]# cat /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/e-smith.pcx
linear
default=esmith

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
        label=esmith
        read-only
        root=/dev/hda6

As you can see there are three changes to be made.  How may this be done using a perl script?

Darrell

[Luke Drumm]

Rather than fill this forum with vaugely off topic material, I might suggest to pose the question to one of the Perl support pages.

My personal pick is PerlMonks.org but I'm sure there's plenty of similar places around.

Regards,
Luke

[jason]

How 'bout

perl -n -i.bkup -e 's/e-smith/mitel/i; print;' /etc/lilo.conf

as a first guess?

Thanks,
jasonDarrell May wrote:
>
> I need to open a text file, perform a substitution on a word
> and save the file.
>
> Just as an example, lets say I want to open /etc/lilo.conf
> and change every occurance of the word 'e-smith' to 'mitel'.
> Again, just a file example.
>
> [root@e-smith lilo.conf]# cat /etc/lilo.conf
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> message=/boot/e-smith.pcx
> linear
> default=esmith
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
>         label=esmith
>         read-only
>         root=/dev/hda6
>
> As you can see there are three changes to be made.  How may
> this be done using a perl script?
>
> Darrell

[Darrell May]

jason wrote:
>
> How 'bout
>
> perl -n -i.bkup -e 's/e-smith/mitel/i; print;' /etc/lilo.conf

That works perfectly and makes a backup copy of the original.

Thanks Jason :->

Darrell