Re: Re: Re: I'm looking for a one-liner filter 'twixt two regexes

Aw! I get...

C:\temp\>perl -n -e "print if /start/ .. /end/" *.html
Can't open *.html: Invalid argument.

When run under CMD.exe -- I'm not sure if it's perl.exe or CMD.exe complaining here. :(
Msemtd.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: I'm looking for a one-liner filter 'twixt two regexes by msemtd (Scribe) on Sep 13, 2002 at 08:22 UTC
Many Thanks to all who replied -- my solution to the CMD.exe problem was resolved with a WinNT batch file(!) to deal with the ".html" argument... `@echo off :: aarunme.bat -- on an NT machine with ActiveState Perl, this fella :: will tidy up a mirror of the Slackware Book by exploding the inner +table for %%f in (.html) do call :func1 %%f goto :EOF :func1 echo %1 perl -ni.bak -e "print if /Norman/ .. /\/BODY$/" %1 :: this line replaces the missing ">" for the closing body tag echo ^> >> %1` [download] BTW: I really should have the 2nd regex on the closing HTML tag.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Re: Re: Re: I'm looking for a one-liner filter 'twixt two regexes
by msemtd (Scribe) on Sep 13, 2002 at 08:22 UTC

@echo off
:: aarunme.bat -- on an NT machine with ActiveState Perl, this fella
:: will tidy up a mirror of the Slackware Book by exploding the inner 
+table
for %%f in (*.html) do call :func1 %%f
goto :EOF
:func1
echo %1
perl -ni.bak -e "print if /Norman/ .. /\/BODY$/" %1
:: this line replaces the missing ">" for the closing body tag
echo ^> >> %1
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