Re^2: perl one liner to search for a string, then search for a different string and append a new line

[Athanasius]

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in thread perl one liner to search for a string, then search for a different string and append a new line

You need to put capturing parentheses around the text to be matched, in order to initialise $1.

You should also definitely follow uncoolbob’s advice and use a non-greedy quantifier.

And your code will be much easier to read if you use different delimiters, because then you won’t have to backslash all the forward slashes (“leaning toothpick syndrome”):

perl -0777 -elnp 's{(<Directory "/usr/local/awstats.+?</Directory>}{$1
+\nCustomLog /usr/local/awstats/logs/access_log comdinedio}s' httpd.co
+nf

Hope that helps,