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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Search & Replace Post 302656161 by fretagi on Thursday 14th of June 2012 10:13:08 AM
Old 06-14-2012
Hi

this is the contents of the script:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
string1="encoding=\"\""
string2="encoding=\"UTF-8\""
sed 's/$string1/$string2/g' text2insert.txt

this is the text file that needs to be modified:

Code:
#more text2insert.txt
<?xml version='1.0' encoding=""?>
<AddressPage xml:lang="PT">

and I am running as this:

Code:
sh sandr.sh

but no luck
 

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Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			  Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)

NAME
Graphics::Primitive::Insets - Space between things DESCRIPTION
Graphics::Primitive::Insets represents the amount of space that surrounds something. This object can be used to represent either padding or margins (in the CSS sense, one being inside the bounding box, the other being outside) SYNOPSIS
use Graphics::Primitive::Insets; my $insets = Graphics::Primitive::Insets->new({ top => 5, bottom => 5, left => 5, right => 5 }); METHODS
Constructor new Creates a new Graphics::Primitive::Insets. Instance Methods as_array Return these insets as an array in the form of top, right, bottom and left. bottom Set/Get the inset from the bottom. equal_to Determine if these Insets are equal to another. left Set/Get the inset from the left. right Set/Get the inset from the right. top Set/Get the inset from the top. zero Sets all the insets (top, left, bottom, right) to 0. AUTHOR
Cory Watson, "<gphat@cpan.org>" SEE ALSO
perl(1) COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE Copyright 2008-2010 by Cory G Watson. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.12.3 2010-08-21 Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)
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