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From:
John W. Krahn
Date:
February 23, 2009 15:49
Subject:
Re: Unmatched '
Message ID:
49A33616.1010107@shaw.ca
John W. Krahn wrote:
> Karyn wrote:
>> Can someone else see why I am getting the following error, cause as 
>> far as I can tell I have escaped all the ' single quotes.
>>
>>
>> ganymede# perl -i.bak1 -p -e 
>> 's/include(\'http:\/\/calarts.edu\/redcat\/nav.php\')\;/include(\'nav.php\')\;/ig' 
>> *.php
>> Unmatched '.
>> ganymede# perl -v
>>
>> This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i386-freebsd-64int
> 
> As you can see, escaping them won't work, but this should:
> 
> perl -i.bak1 
> -pe's,include(\047http://calarts.edu/redcat/nav.php\047);,include(\047nav.php\047);,ig' 
> *.php

Oops, that *should* be:

perl -i.bak1 
-pe's,include(\047http://calarts\.edu/redcat/nav\.php\047);,include(\047nav.php\047);,ig' 
*.php



John
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