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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replace string of a file with a string of another file for matches using grep,sed,awk Post 303026462 by RudiC on Wednesday 28th of November 2018 06:44:43 AM
Old 11-28-2018
After reading your request several times I have a hard time precisely understanding what you need. Amongst other questions it's unclear what be
- the point you're stuck at with your attempts to a solution, and what you want changed.

- the structure of files under /tmp.
- the structure of entries to be modified.
 

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software::release

Software::Release(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				    Software::Release(3pm)

NAME

       Software::Release - Object representing a release of software.

VERSION

       version 0.02

SYNOPSIS

	   use DateTime;
	   use Software::Release;
	   use Software::Release::Change;

	   my $change = Software::Release::Change->new(
	       author => 'gphat',
	       change_id => 'abc1234',
	       date => DateTime->now,
	       description => 'Frozzled the wozjob'
	   );

	   my $rel = Software::Release->new(
	       version => '0.1',
	       name => 'Angry Anteater',
	       date => DateTime->now,
	   );

	   $rel->add_to_changes($change);

DESCRIPTION

       Software::Release is a purely informational collection of objects that you can use to represent a release of software.  Its original use-
       case was to provide a contract between a git log parser and a formatter class that outputs a changelog, but it may be useful to others to
       create bug trackers, dashboards or whathaveyour.

ATTRIBUTES

   changes
       A list of Software::Release::Change objects for this release.

   date
       The date this software was released.

   name
       The name of this release.

   version
       The version of the release, as a string.

METHODS

   add_to_changes ($change)
       Add a change to this release's list of changes.

   has_no_changes
       Returns true if this release's list of changes is empty.

AUTHOR

       Cory G Watson <gphat@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Infinity Interactive, Inc.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

perl v5.12.4							    2011-10-19						    Software::Release(3pm)
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