Re: in place editing a list of files

doesn't directly address your code issues, but here's a different approach that should do what you want from a bash prompt:

for f in `cat /home/rjs/heena/edit` ; do
  perl -i.bak -0777 -pe 's/CONFIDENTIAL(.*?)own\s+risk/ /s' $f
done
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Update: shell-independent method: perl -i.bak -0777 -pe 's/CONFIDENTIAL(.*?)own\s+risk/ /s' `cat /home/rjs/heena/edit`

If the 'edit' file contains a list of directories (i wasn't entirely sure from your post), then:

for d in `cat /home/rjs/heena/edit` ; do
  perl -i.bak -0777 -pe 's/CONFIDENTIAL(.*?)own\s+risk/ /s' $d/*
done
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See perlrun for info on the various switches (the -0777 causes a slurp).

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Re^2: in place editing a list of files by rjsaulakh (Beadle) on Jan 08, 2007 at 18:39 UTC
davidrw hats of to u sir shell-independent method: perl -i.bak -0777 -pe 's/CONFIDENTIAL(.*?)own\s+risk/ /s' `cat /home/rjs/heena/edit` you single line of code has done all the magic . just one more update i require from u , will this piece of code work fine when incorporated with another perl script	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: in place editing a list of files by davidrw (Prior) on Jan 08, 2007 at 20:26 UTC
depends what "incorporated" means .. does this need to be invoked from inside another script? if so obviously just can't copy/paste verbatim (could dump it in a system call, though maybe not ideal method) .. or does this just need to be called right before/after another perl script? if so, could just wrap the two calls in a shell script ... otherwise, write a sub that sets $^I, @ARGV, $/, and runs the loop that -n or -p does (see perlrun)	[reply]