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06-27-2012
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Perl one liner to replace text
Not quite a unix question but problem in a perl command. Taking a chance if someone knows about the error Code:
cat 1 a b c d perl -p -e 's/a/b/g' 1 b b c d What is the problem here?? Code:
perl -p -i -e 's/a/b/g' 1 Can't remove 1: Text file busy, skipping file. |
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06-27-2012
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-i means "in place" But. It requires that the original file be removed and 1 is stdout to perl.
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06-27-2012
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Thanks for replying Jim, prompted by your explanation, I found that the file under consideration is owned by root. A 'user' owned files can be changed by the same command. I tried Code:
sudo chown user 1 no error, but owner is still root. This is very irritating I have 100s of such files to work with. ---------- Post updated at 04:36 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:04 PM ---------- Thanks I got it sorted, problem was ownership on a mounted directory. |
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