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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Swapping or switching 2 lines using sed Post 302261008 by null7 on Saturday 22nd of November 2008 09:09:30 PM
Old 11-22-2008
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The code should work fine with the changes you mention.
You say it doesn't work, could you explain what exactly is happening?
What i mean is when i run the script, there's no changes to the file (not backup and swap) even the file fulfill the condition. that's weird.


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Are you sure you that want to understand every part (it seams you prefer to avoid Perl)?
Yes if possible. I'm not trying to avoid but i really don't have much time.I thought it fast to learn by your explanation here. But it's oke if you don't have time to explain it. Smilie


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You can try to write a shell script for this task if you don't want to use Perl (?).
I already make it before this, but look likes no one feedback the correct one. Smilie
 

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PPI::Token::Quote(3)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				      PPI::Token::Quote(3)

NAME
PPI::Token::Quote - String quote abstract base class INHERITANCE
PPI::Token::Quote isa PPI::Token isa PPI::Element DESCRIPTION
The "PPI::Token::Quote" class is never instantiated, and simply provides a common abstract base class for the four quote classes. In PPI, a "quote" is limited to only the quote-like things that themselves directly represent a string. (although this includes double quotes with interpolated elements inside them). The subclasses of "PPI::Token::Quote" are: '' - PPI::Token::Quote::Single "q{}" - PPI::Token::Quote::Literal "" - PPI::Token::Quote::Double "qq{}" - PPI::Token::Quote::Interpolate The names are hopefully obvious enough not to have to explain what each class is here. See their respective pages for more details. Please note that although the here-doc does represent a literal string, it is such a nasty piece of work that in PPI it is given the honor of its own token class (PPI::Token::HereDoc). METHODS
string The "string" method is provided by all four ::Quote classes. It won't get you the actual literal Perl value, but it will strip off the wrapping of the quotes. # The following all return foo from the ->string method 'foo' "foo" q{foo} qq <foo> literal The "literal" method is provided by ::Quote:Literal and ::Quote::Single. This returns the value of the string as Perl sees it: without the quote marks and with "\" and "'" resolved to "" and "'". The "literal" method is not implemented by ::Quote::Double or ::Quote::Interpolate yet. SUPPORT
See the support section in the main module. AUTHOR
Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org> COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2001 - 2011 Adam Kennedy. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module. perl v5.16.3 2011-02-26 PPI::Token::Quote(3)
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