Regex on the Command Line

[Deleted]

This works as a script but fails on the command line

Any suggestions?

perl -pi -e "s/\'win\',\'width=[b](.*)[/b],height=[b](.*)[/b]\'\);/\'win\',\'width=[b]$1[/b],height=[b]$2[/b],resizable=1,scrollbars=1\'\);/gi" *htm

What is in bold fails

http://unixjunky.com

 

[ChrisHunt]

I suspect that the $1 and $2 are being interpreted by the unix shell and never get to perl. Don't know how you'd work round it on the command line though. Could you not put that line of code into a little script and run that?

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
Extra Connections Ltd

 

[waiterm]

just a thought, why not try (.*?) instead of what you currently have:

perl -pi -e "s/\'win\',\'width=(.*?),height=(.*?)\'\);/\'win\',\'width=$1,height=$2,resizable=1,scrollbars=1\'\);/gi" *htm

My command line perl's a bit rubbish as is my regexing, but might be worth a go!

Rob Waite

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