Re: [Gnu-arch-users] new version hook script examples

[John Meinel]

Zenaan Harkness wrote:

> BTW, does anyone know/ use an alternative to perl -i for in-place
> munging? I guess I should learn how to chain multiple lines such as the
> following into one, since firing up perl for each line seems rather
> heavy weight.
>
> perl -pi -e "s#SUB_WEB_HOST#$SUB_WEB_HOST#g;" $SED_FILES
> perl -pi -e "s#SUB_server.host#$SUB_server_host#g;" $SED_FILES
> ...
>
> ??
>
> tia
> zen

Actually, perl doesn't actually do in-place munging. If you notice, it 
creates .bak files, so really perl is doing:

mv $FILE $FILE.bak
perl $FILE.bak > $FILE
(maybe doing rm $FILE.bak)

I don't really see why you couldn't do this in your own scripts.

John
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