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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Adding text to file on certain lines with(special characters) Post 302380508 by durden_tyler on Tuesday 15th of December 2009 11:11:57 AM
Old 12-15-2009
Your Perl program is incorrect syntax-wise. You may want to look up basic conditions and loop structures in the documentation or a good textbook.

Maybe this is what you are looking for -

Code:
$
$ cat -n f7
     1  this is line 1
     2  this is line 2
     3  this is line 3
     4  this is line 4
     5  this is line 5
     6  this is line 6
     7  this is line 7
     8  this is line 8
     9  this is line 9
    10  this is line 10
$
$
$ perl -lne 'BEGIN {$RM="BLAH"}
             if ($. == 3) {print qq(RM="rm2")}
             elsif ($. == 5) {print qq($RM)}
             elsif ($. == 7) {print qq(rmdesc="Result process")}
             else {print}' f7
this is line 1
this is line 2
RM="rm2"
this is line 4
BLAH
this is line 6
rmdesc="Result process"
this is line 8
this is line 9
this is line 10
$
$

tyler_durden
 

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devel::trace

Trace(3pm)						User Contributed Perl Documentation						Trace(3pm)

NAME

       Devel::Trace - Print out each line before it is executed (like "sh -x")

SYNOPSIS

	 perl -d:Trace program

DESCRIPTION

       If you run your program with "perl -d:Trace program", this module will print a message to standard error just before each line is executed.
       For example, if your program looks like this:

	       #!/usr/bin/perl

	       print "Statement 1 at line 4
";
	       print "Statement 2 at line 5
";
	       print "Call to sub x returns ", &x(), " at line 6.
";

	       exit 0;

	       sub x {
		 print "In sub x at line 12.
";
		 return 13;
	       }

       Then  the "Trace" output will look like this:

	       >> ./test:4: print "Statement 1 at line 4
";
	       >> ./test:5: print "Statement 2 at line 5
";
	       >> ./test:6: print "Call to sub x returns ", &x(), " at line 6.
";
	       >> ./test:12:   print "In sub x at line 12.
";
	       >> ./test:13:   return 13;
	       >> ./test:8: exit 0;

       This is something like the shell's "-x" option.

DETAILS

       Inside your program, you can enable and disable tracing by doing

	   $Devel::Trace::TRACE = 1;   # Enable
	   $Devel::Trace::TRACE = 0;   # Disable

       or

	   Devel::Trace::trace('on');  # Enable
	   Devel::Trace::trace('off'); # Disable

       "Devel::Trace" exports the "trace" function if you ask it to:

	   import Devel::Trace 'trace';

       Then if you want you just say

	   trace 'on';		       # Enable
	   trace 'off'; 	       # Disable

TODO

       o   You should be able to  send the trace output to the filehandle of your choice.

       o   You should be able to specify the format of the output.

       o   You should be able to get the output into a string.

       We'll see.

LICENSE

       Devel::Trace 0.11 and its source code are hereby placed in the public domain.

Author
       Mark-Jason Dominus (C<mjd-perl-trace@plover.com>), Plover Systems co.  See the C<Devel::Trace.pm> Page at
       http://www.plover.com/~mjd/perl/Trace for news and upgrades.

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