Troy A. Johnson allegedly wrote: > "John J. Trammell" wrote: > > > > > Anyone know an easy way to change all of these files? It is going to have > > > to involve some reg-exp because the variable is sender = owner-listname > > > which needs to be changed to listname-owner. > > > > How about something like: > > > > perl -pi.bak -e 's/(\w+)\s*=\s*(\w+)-(\w+)$/$1 = $3-$2/' <filenames> > > > > Oh, don't make him do that! He doesn't think in Perl yet. ;-) LOL! No, sed is the better option. ;^l Adios, Chris -- C.S. Cornuelle School of Mathematics/MCIM, University of Minnesota 206 Church St. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612) 626-8930v, (612) 624-2333f, bob at math.umn.edu Ferventer Vestite --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org