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perl one liner + print VALUE in the end of the line

The following perl one liner checks if $CURRENT_VERSION matches $NEW_VERSION exactly, and prints it if it does. Example: CURRENT_VERSION=223.3.12.4.5.3 NEW_VERSION=223.3.12.4.5.3 DATE=17.3.2013 ...
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perl + combine exec command with perl one liner line

I have the following short perl script rename.pl. How can I translate this script to one liner perl syntax? And how to combine the perl one liner in find command? rename.pl #!/usr/bin/perl $op = ...
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renaming a directory and its subdirs without affecting their files

I have to rename directories under the root directory with prefix "ms_PF" and then rename their subdirectories with the modified name of the main directory with an extra "_", and then copy all ...
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Identify text/ascii files in Linux/Solaris

I have a little project to build bash script that search in the OS ( Linux/Solaris ) the current IP address from files and replace them with other IP address. The problem is that IP address could be ...
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linux/solaris + verify duplicate valid IP address from file

what the best way to find duplicate IP from file ( I have ksh script in this script I need to write function that check for duplicate IP ) for example if IP - 192.1926.23.52 exists twice in file - ...
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Linux + replace STRING/WORD in file according to rule

My target is to replace any word/string/Any characters in file with new word/string according to the following rules: If numeric characters on the left side of word/string then we not replace the ...
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linux + perl + replace any WORD in file with special characters with condition

Example1 work fine when I want to replace OLD_TEXT with NEW_TEXT ( its replace also all special characters as $@^%)(_+`:; etc ..) example1 export OLD_TEXT='$$OLD_WORD$$' export ...
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What scripting language or platform to use for web page downloads and screen interaction? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Does anybody here have experience in automating some tasks in web applications using curl? Here is what I need to do? Wondering what platform is most suited - easy to ...
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Is it a good idea to supplement shell script with perl purely for use of regex?

I'm looking for a simple way to utilize regex in a UNIX shell script where not every system will have perl extensions built into grep. What is really helpful about perl regex here is back/forward ...
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219 views

Passing clicked links in rxvt to a script

I start my browser vimprobable in tabbed like so: "`tabbed -d > /tmp/tabbed.xid`; vimprobable2 -e `cat /tmp/tabbed.xid`" [1] I am then able to send all new instances of vimprobable to tabbed (and ...
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Which scripting language is most widespread in system administration tasks? [closed]

I am migrating to Linux and have some experience with the Mac OS X command line/bash. I'd like to automate system admin tasks via scripting, but I am unsure as which language is the most used in the ...