Re^5: Finding a Letter at Last line

Almost there, just insert two extra quotes.

for file in `ls -1 *.txt`
do perl -e 'open FILE, "<'$file'"; $_ = join "", <FILE>; print "true" 
+if /^t[^\n]*\Z/msi'
done
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Re^6: Finding a Letter at Last line by smokemachine (Hermit) on Nov 08, 2006 at 17:05 UTC
you can do this too... but you dont need use the ls insight of for... `for file in .txt do perl -e 'open FILE, "<'$file'"; $_ = join "", <FILE>; print "true" +if /^t[^\n]\Z/msi' done` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^7: Finding a Letter at Last line by mantra2006 (Hermit) on Nov 08, 2006 at 17:51 UTC
Hi smokemachine excellent...thanks many..you saved my day...thanks again for the quick help Thanks & Regards Sridhar	[reply]