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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Perl command to replace word in file... Post 302771096 by in2nix4life on Tuesday 19th of February 2013 04:03:39 PM
Old 02-19-2013
Code:
cat file

APP=ABCD 12/12/2012
DB=DDB 01/01/2013

perl -pe '$NEWVAL="DCBA";$NEWDT="01/01/2013";$_ =~ s/ABCD\s12\/12\/2012/$NEWVAL $NEWDT/' file

APP=DCBA 01/01/2013
DB=DDB 01/01/2013

 

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LEARN ABOUT HPUX

transmission-edit

TRANSMISSION-EDIT(1)					    BSD General Commands Manual 				      TRANSMISSION-EDIT(1)

NAME

     transmission-edit -- command-line utility to modify .torrent files' announce URLs

SYNOPSIS

     transmission-edit [-h] [-a url] [-d url] [-r search replace] torrentfile(s)

DESCRIPTION

     transmission-edit command-line utility to modify .torrent files' announce URLs

OPTIONS

     -h --help
	     Show a short help page and exit.

     -a --add URL
	     Add an announce URL to the torrent's announce-list if it's not already in the list

     -d --delete URL
	     Remove an announce URL from the torrent's announce-list

     -r --replace search replace
	     Substring search-and-replace inside a torrent's announce URLs. This can be used to change an announce URL when the tracker moves or
	     your passcode changes.

EXAMPLES

     Update a tracker passcode in all your torrents:

	   $ transmission-edit -r old-passcode new-passcode ~/.config/transmission/torrents/*.torrent

AUTHORS

     Jordan Lee

SEE ALSO

     transmission-create(1), transmission-daemon(1), transmission-edit(1), transmission-gtk(1), transmission-qt(1), transmission-remote(1),
     transmission-show(1)

     http://www.transmissionbt.com/

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