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Old 05-13-2013
Global replace with perl in bash
I am newbie to perl,
I am trying to use the below syntax to replace globally a string with a variable.


Code:
$ bash -version
GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (powerpc-ibm-aix5.1)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

$ perl -version
This is perl, v5.8.8 built for aix-thread-multi

Code:
# !/bin/bash
set -x
REF_URL="http://vmdis01.corp.testcompany.web/ABC_1.0_Version/index.htm"
cp test_url_main.txt test_url.txt
perl -pi -e "s/XXREF_URLXX/\Q${REF_URL}\E/g;" test_url.txt
cat test_url.txt

I am getting the following error

Code:
++ REF_URL=http://vmdis01.corp.testcompany.web/ABC_1.0_Version/index.htm
++ cp test_url_main.txt test_url.txt
++ perl -pi -e 's/XXREF_URLXX/\Qhttp://vmdis01.corp.testcompany.web/ABC_1.0_Version/index.htm\E/g;' test_url.txt
Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 1, near "0_Version"
        (Missing operator before Version?)
Backslash found where operator expected at -e line 1, near "htm\"
syntax error at -e line 1, near "0_Version"
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
++ cat test_url.txt
XXREF_URLXX

Any help is appreciated.
# 2  
Old 05-13-2013
This has to do with your choice of delimeter (/), since the string would expand to:
Code:
perl -pi -e "s/XXREF_URLXX/\Qhttp://vmdis01.corp.testcompany.web/ABC_1.0_Version/index.htm\E/g;" test_url.txt

...not a valid substitution command.

Try using a different one.

Code:
perl -pi -e "s|XXREF_URLXX|\Q${REF_URL}\E|g;" test_url.txt

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# 3  
Old 05-13-2013
That worked like charm, and thanks for the speedy reply !!!
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