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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Comment lines in FSTAB using perl Post 302671641 by ajaincv on Friday 13th of July 2012 09:39:09 PM
Old 07-13-2012
Comment lines in FSTAB using perl
Hi All,

I need to comment specific Two Lines in fstab & want to do using & also want to ensure that is done corretly.

I am trying the below method. But its giving Search pattern not terminated.

################
Code:
b36376 67 % cat linux-fstab_testing | perl -i -wnl -e '/^('\Q zin46fil01:\/vol\/fil01vol09\/soft1\/\_TOOLS_\/dist \/_TOOLS_\/.dist15 ')/  and print "#$1" or print'
Search pattern not terminated at -e line 1.
b36376 68 %

#################

Please help on this

Regards

Ankit
Last edited by Franklin52; 07-14-2012 at 06:35 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples, thank you
 

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QSTAIL(1)							  qstail man page							 QSTAIL(1)

NAME

       qstail - Utility prints the end of a log file starting at the specified pattern.

SYNOPSIS

       qstail -i <path> -p <pattern>

DESCRIPTION

       qstail  shows  the end of a log file beginning with the line containing the specified pattern. This may be used to show all lines which has
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OPTIONS

       -i <path>
	      Input file to read the data from.

       -p <pattern>
	      Search pattern (literal string).

SEE ALSO

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AUTHOR

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