Re: [TCLUG:21324] Probably an easy sh/perl question...

["Troy A. Johnson" <john1536@tc.umn.edu>]

"John J. Trammell" wrote:
> 
> > Anyone know an easy way to change all of these files?  It is going to have
> > to involve some reg-exp because the variable is sender = owner-listname
> > which needs to be changed to listname-owner.
> 
> How about something like:
> 
>    perl -pi.bak -e 's/(\w+)\s*=\s*(\w+)-(\w+)$/$1 = $3-$2/' <filenames>
> 

Oh, don't make him do that! He doesn't think in Perl yet.  ;-)