in reply to Re^2: perl oneliners
in thread perl oneliners

But this script.pl file also gets changed... the directory path is /main/script.pl -- Script file. /main/test/*.pl files -- perl files.

Let's suppose you write your script file like this (I prefer using curly braces around regexes when the slash is part of the pattern or replacement):

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; # check for valid usage (user must provide a directory path): (@ARGV == 1 and -d $ARGV[0]) or die "Usage: $0 /path/to/scripts\n"; my $path = shift; { local $/; # set input record separator to undef (slurp-mode read +ing) for my $file (<$path/*.pl>) # use a file glob { open( F, "<", $file ) or next; $_ = <F>; close F; s{/usr/bin/perl}{/test/test/test}g; s{/ggg/ggg/www}{/zzz/zzz/zzz}g; s{/jjj/jjj/jjj}{/aaa/aaa/aaa}g; open( F, ">", $file ) or die "$file: $!"; print F; close F; } }
When you put that script file in a directory other than the one that you provide as a command-line arg when you run it (or if you put it in the same directory, but give it a name that does not end in ".pl"), the script will not edit/rewrite itself.