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Thanks, fixed.
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Re^4: One liner to subtract by 2
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 24, 2013 at 14:28 UTC

    Thanks Guys

    the header is on the first line of my file so I'm doing the following

    perl -pe 's/(0-9{10})$/sprintf("%010d", $1-2)/e if $. ==1' TONYFILE.DAT

    for some reason it's not changing the count...it's still 496

    any idea what i'm missing here?

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      This outputs the new contents to the standard output. If you want to change the file, you have to add the -i flag: 
      perl -i~ -pe ...

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