in reply to no proxy - yes proxy Netscape

Nice little trick, but I'm sure the first could be written as a pure perl script (I don't like the idea of launching an interpreter from an interpreter). Of course, I can't be bothered to... because I can't remember an easy way of doing a read and a write at (about) the same time. *sigh* ---- Arrr, Jim lad.

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RE: RE: no proxy - yes proxy Netscape
by gregorovius (Friar) on May 25, 2000 at 22:54 UTC
    Well, you could keep it a one-liner and call exec to run netscape, still taking advantage of the cool -pi options: 
    perl -pi -e 's/^user_pref\("network\.proxy\.type".+$//; END{exec netsc
+ape}' ~/.netscape/preferences.js

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