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Old 06-27-2012
Perl one liner to replace text
Not quite a unix question but problem in a perl command. Taking a chance if someone knows about the error

Code:
cat 1
a b c d
perl -p -e 's/a/b/g' 1
b b c d

What is the problem here??

Code:
perl -p -i -e 's/a/b/g' 1
Can't remove 1: Text file busy, skipping file.

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Old 06-27-2012
-i means "in place" But. It requires that the original file be removed and 1 is stdout to perl.
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Old 06-27-2012
Thanks for replying Jim, prompted by your explanation, I found that the file under consideration is owned by root. A 'user' owned files can be changed by the same command.

I tried
Code:
sudo chown user 1

no error, but owner is still root. This is very irritating I have 100s of such files to work with.

---------- Post updated at 04:36 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:04 PM ----------

Thanks I got it sorted, problem was ownership on a mounted directory.
 
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