Re: sed isn't working within a perl script

in reply to sed isn't working within a perl script

You will need to modify your string and properly quote the backslash so that it gets passed correctly to the shell. I recommend the following approach:

use strict;
use warnings;
my $cmd = "sed -ie 's/\(.*\)/Number => \1/' test.txt";

print "Launching [$cmd]\n";

system($cmd) == 0
    or die "Couldn't launch [$cmd]: $! / $?";
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You will see that your single backslashes did not get passed through to the sed command. You will need to double them.

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