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# 1  
Old 08-29-2005
Network find and replace text with a variable?
Is there a way that I can make the following work with using variables?

perl -pi -e 's#blah#hrm#ig' replacetext

but like this

var=blah
perl -pi -e 's#$var#hrm#ig' replacetext
# 2  
Old 08-29-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by doublejz
Is there a way that I can make the following work with using variables?

perl -pi -e 's#blah#hrm#ig' replacetext

but like this

var=blah
perl -pi -e 's#$var#hrm#ig' replacetext
yes, there is - by using double quotes.
# 3  
Old 08-29-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99
yes, there is - by using double quotes.
hehe oh yea, maybe I should give up scripting while I am ahead. Smilie
# 4  
Old 08-31-2005
just replace ' to " is okay.
Code:
var=blah
var2=AAA
perl -pi -e "s#$var#$var2#ig" replacetext

cheers.
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