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ab52
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Feb 21, 2014, 6:11 AM

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sed in perl	Can't Post

Hi all

I have this sed command that works find on the command line but when i call it from a perl script is errors

Code

sed -i '13 i <key>AllowClearTextPasswords</key>\n<true/>' file.txt

i get this error

Code

 
sed: -e expression #1, char 41: unknown command: `<'

Any ideas? i have tired escaping the < but i dont think i had it right

Laurent_R
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Feb 21, 2014, 10:05 AM

Post #2 of 3 (2365 views)

Re: [ab52] sed in perl [In reply to]	Can't Post

Please show how you call it from Perl. I can't answer without that.

But the main point is that there is no point calling a sed command from Perl, since Perl can do everything that sed can do, and it can do it better and il most cases faster. You should do it in Perl.

ab52
New User

Feb 24, 2014, 12:46 AM

Post #3 of 3 (2350 views)

Re: [Laurent_R] sed in perl [In reply to]	Can't Post

this is my code

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my $searchterm=`defaults read /Users/$USER/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iChat.Jabber.plist | grep -w "AllowClearTextPasswords = 1"`; 
if ( $? !=0 ) { 
        _log("Converting com.apple.iChat.Jabber.plist to xml "); 
        system("plutil -convert xml1 /Users/$USER/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iChat.Jabber.plist"); 
        _log("Adding in the correct line"); 
        my $cmd = "/apps/MacOS/ports/10.8/libexec/gnubin/sed -i '13 i <key>AllowClearTextPasswords</key>\n<true/>' /Users/$USER/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iChat.Jabber.plist"; 
        system("$cmd"); 
}

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