Replacing search string with file name

[billbose1]

Can somebody tell how to replace a string within a file by its filename.

Thanks in Advance.

 

[MillerH]

perl -p -i.bak -e "s/string/$ARGV/" filename

- Miller

 

[MillerH]

Or read KevinADC's faq on How to search and replace text within a file to make a script to do this:

http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=6559

- Miller

 

[billbose1]

Tried that one liner. But it removes the string.

 

[billbose1]

I meant it removes the string and doesn't replace it with the filename (ARGV)

 

[MillerH]

Does too

- M

 

[KevinADC]

It shoud work.

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- Kevin, perl coder unexceptional!

 

[ishnid]

Use single quotes. Using double quotes means that $ARGV is your shell's environment variable, not a Perl variable. I'm assuming Kevin and Miller are seeing something different because they're on Windows.

perl -p -i.bak -e 's/string/$ARGV/' filename

 

[KevinADC]

I tested on Windows.

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- Kevin, perl coder unexceptional!

 

[MillerH]

Silly environment incompatibilities.
I play on windows. I work on linux.
This was play.

The also following work on windows:

perl -p -i.bak -e "s/string/$ARGV/" filename
perl -p -i.bak -e s/string/$ARGV/ filename

The following work on linux:

perl -p -i.bak -e s/string/\$ARGV/ filename
perl -p -i.bak -e "s/string/\$ARGV/" filename
perl -p -i.bak -e 's/string/$ARGV/' filename

- Miller

 

[billbose1]

Thanks everyone.