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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replacing text in Perl given by command line Post 302653379 by Corona688 on Friday 8th of June 2012 05:40:27 PM
Old 06-08-2012
In what way does it "not work"?

Don't try to build the program all at once if you don't know how, it won't work and you won't be able to tell why. Build it in parts, keep adding on.

Try things like
Code:
print $ARGV[0], "\n";

to see if you're getting the argument you think you are.

open() doesn't work that way. You have to give it a file name, like I showed you.

Just because there's a $FILE variable doesn't mean you've opened FILE. They really have nothing to do with each other.

> doesn't work that way either, it only works like I showed you, inside open() itself.
 

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DH_AUTO_CLEAN(1)						     Debhelper							  DH_AUTO_CLEAN(1)

NAME

       dh_auto_clean - automatically cleans up after a build

SYNOPSIS

       dh_auto_clean [buildsystemoptions] [debhelperoptions] [--params]

DESCRIPTION

       dh_auto_clean is a debhelper program that tries to automatically clean up after a package build. It does so by running the appropriate
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