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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting New code for modifying text files in a folder Post 302956435 by Aia on Wednesday 30th of September 2015 12:57:34 AM
Old 09-30-2015
Since you could not confirm if the line starting with the word "Marker" would land always as the second line, I made some modifications.
Please, try this version.

Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Copy qw(move);

for my $fname (@ARGV){
    my $fh;
    if(not open $fh, '<', $fname){
        print STDERR "$fname could not be processed\n";
        next;
    }  
    print "Processing file: $fname ...\n";

    my @names = $fname =~ /\[(.+?)\]\[\w\]/g;
    next unless (scalar @names == 2);
    open my $fh_bk, '>', "$fname.bk" or next;
    my $before_last = "AMEL\tX\tY\t\tX\tX\n";

    while(<$fh>){
         s/(^Marker\s+)\w{3}\.fsa(\s+)\w{3}\.fsa(\s+Parent\/Child.*$)/$1$names[0]$2$names[1]$3/;
         if(eof) {
             print $fh_bk "$before_last$_";
             next;
         }
         print $fh_bk $_;
    }
    close $fh;
    close $fh_bk;
    # test first and if it does correctly, remove the
    # # from next line to rename backup to original name
    #move "$fname.bk", $fname;
}

 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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