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Untested, but i thikng ... perl -p -i.bak -e 's/(\d+)$/$1+1/e if (/^xyz\s*=/)'
Update : oops, misread question, changed (yet, still untested)
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Re: Re: Can anyone make this shorter?
by mlm (Novice) on Aug 21, 2001 at 20:14 UTC
    Interesting, but it will not change a specific variable in the file. -mlm
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