I wanted to know how to replace a string in place using a perl script rathere than a command line. I searched through web andI tried below things.
I have a file:
> cat temp
this is one
>
And i have a below script that i wrote:
> cat temp.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl -i.bak
use strict;
use warnings;
my @ARGV=('temp');
$^I = '.bak';
my %hash=("one"=>"1");
{
while (<>) {
s/(one)/$hash{$1}/g;
print;
}
}
exit;
But when i try to execute(>perl temp.pl
) this it just hangs and the file is also not getting updated.
The version of perl i am using is 5.8.4
Also the command line thing(perl -pi -e 's/one/1/g' temp
) works perfectly.
Is there anything wrong that I am doing?