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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting String replace perl script error Post 302072605 by x96riley3 on Thursday 4th of May 2006 10:50:39 AM
Old 05-04-2006
This you can do from the command line, from a shell script, or you can put it in a perl script.

$1 is whatever you pass to the script.

Put this command in a file called replace and run it like this
#replace inputfile.txt

This searches the file $1, ($1 is what you pass to the replace script) it looks for the word 'This' and replaces in with 'I did it' and prints it to a new file called /tmp/newinputfile.txt.


perl -e 'while(<>){if(/This/){$_="I did it\n"} print "$_"}' $1 > /tmp/newiputfile.txt

Hope this helps

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SIEVESHELL(1)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					     SIEVESHELL(1)

NAME
sieveshell - remotely manipulate sieve scripts SYNOPSIS
sieveshell [--user=user] [--authname=authname] [--realm=realm] [--exec=script] server[:port] sieveshell --help DESCRIPTION
sieveshell allows users to manipulate their scripts on a remote server. It works via MANAGESIEVE, a work in progress. The following commands are recognized: list list scripts on server. put <filename> upload script to server. get <name> [<filename>] get script. if no filename display to stdout delete <name> delete script. activate <name> activate script. deactivate deactivate all scripts. OPTIONS
-u user, --user=user The authorization name to request; by default, derived from the authentication credentials. -a authname, --authname=authname The user to use for authentication (defaults to current user). -r realm, --realm=realm The realm to attempt authentication in. -e script, --exec=script Instead of working interactively, run commands from script, and exit when done. REFERENCES
[MANAGESIEVE] Martin, T.; "A Protocol for Remotely Managing Sieve Scripts", draft-ietf-managesieve-03.txt, Mirapoint, Inc.; May 2001, work in progress. AUTHOR
Tim Martin <tmartin@mirapoint.com>, and the rest of the Cyrus team <cyrus-bugs@andrew.cmu.edu>. perl v5.10.0 2008-04-04 SIEVESHELL(1)
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