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rafael (2125)

rafael
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Tuesday December 10, 2002
10:58 AM

Straight, no chaser

[ #9360 ]
I have to confess : today I fixed a bug in an AIX executable by patching it with perl -i -pe 'BEGIN{undef$/}s/.../.../'. (At least this way I didn't have to recompile and transfer a 350-k file over a slow dialup line.)

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  • perl -i -pe 'BEGIN{undef$/}s/.../.../'
    I find it easier to type:
    perl -pi -0777 -e 's/foo/bar/'
    --
    • Randal L. Schwartz
    • Stonehenge
  • (At least this way I didn't have to recompile and transfer a 350-k file over a slow dialup line.)

    Why not rsync the old remote file to be identical to your corrected local copy?

    • You're assuming that I was connected to the remote host via a regular TCP/IP/telnet connection. I wasn't : this was a serial link, and I was transferring files via Ckermit. (And I'm unfamiliar with this kind of communication).
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