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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Find and Replace in File Post 302549902 by sdosanjh on Wednesday 24th of August 2011 07:22:45 AM
Old 08-24-2011
Find and Replace in File

Legends,

I have a file /tmp/list.txt

I want to find "/bin/" and replace it with "/log/"

I tried the follwoing but no luck

Code:
Sandy: /tmp> perl -pi -e 's/\/bin\/\/log\/' /tmp/list.txt >> /tmp/try
Substitution pattern not terminated at -e line 1.

AND,

Sandy: /tmp> perl -pi -e 's/\/\bin\/\/\/\log\/\/' /tmp/list.txt >> /tmp/try
Substitution pattern not terminated at -e line 1.

Please help

Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment Use code tags - you got a PM with a guide, thanks.

Last edited by sdosanjh; 08-24-2011 at 08:31 AM.. Reason: code tags
 

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newinclude(1)						      General Commands Manual						     newinclude(1)

NAME
newinclude - create a binary mailing list from an :include: file SYNOPSIS
newinclude list DESCRIPTION
newinclude reads a sendmail-style :include: file, list, and converts it into a binary format in list.bin for use by fastforward. newinclude first writes the mailing list to list.tmp, and then moves it to list.bin. If there is any problem creating list.tmp, newinclude leaves list.bin alone. newinclude always creates list.bin world-readable. COMPATIBILITY WARNING: sendmail reads list directly; fastforward needs list.bin. sendmail's strategy is a disaster if you save list to disk at the same moment that sendmail reads it; the list will be truncated at a random spot, perhaps in the middle of an address. Further- more, if the system crashes while you are writing list, list could be filled with all sorts of garbage. LIST FORMAT
list may contain any number of lines; each line may contain any number of addresses or further :include: files. See newaliases(1) for details on the address format. Any line in file beginning with # is ignored. COMPATIBILITY WARNING: newinclude does not support file or program deliveries in :include: files. You can use the secure delivery mecha- nisms described in dot-qmail(5) instead. COMPATIBILITY WARNING: Versions of sendmail before V8 did not allow comments in :include: files. SEE ALSO
fastforward(1), newaliases(1), setmaillist(1), dot-qmail(5) newinclude(1)
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