Re^3: perl onliner on multiple files

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in thread perl onliner on multiple files

In a bash shell, I get:


$ perl -nE "/: / and $c += (split/: /)[0]; if( eof(ARGV) ){ say qq[SUM
+.$ARGV =$c]; $c=0 }" tmp_*
syntax error at -e line 1, near "+="
syntax error at -e line 1, near "; ="
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
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And:

$ c=10
$ echo c
c
$ echo $c
10
$ echo "The total is: $c"
The total is: 10
$ echo 'The total is: $c'
The total is: $c
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So within double quotes, the shell expands $variables, which of course happens *before* the shell hands the text over to the perl command. That is similar to the way the shell expands your glob: tmp_* and replaces it with a list of file names, which is what the perl command ends up seeing.

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Re^4: perl onliner on multiple files by abhay180 (Sexton) on Feb 09, 2013 at 10:05 UTC
ok. i figured that out...but since i was using perl version 5.8, the -E option and "say" keyword were not recognized. Once i use the perl version 5.10 and above...the above line works exactly the way i want it to. Thanks a lot.	[reply]

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