Shell Programming and Scripting

Greetings!

Looking to clear up a rather simple matter which seems to nonetheless elude me: How does one call Perl's s2p from the commandline? I've tried such as this:

Code:

perl -e s2p '-i 's/first/last/g' ./somefile.txt'

...to convert a similarly-formed GNU sedline over to the Perl equivalent (without much luck).

What is the basic formatting/syntax I might be missing here?

Thanks a bunch!

man s2p or s2p -h or perldoc.perl.org

Code:

s2p -e 's/first/last/g'

@Aia:

Yikes!

Looking at the output for this example reminds me of the reams of paperwork which went along with simple loose logic devices for mil-spec before the world went "COTS."

(Thank goodness for the old "backtick trick" in most cases with sed/Perl )

Good to have know-how here anyway; and many thanks again --