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

[bob@math.umn.edu]

Troy A. Johnson allegedly wrote:
> "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.  ;-)

LOL!

No, sed is the better option.  ;^l

Adios,
Chris
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