Re: scripting

["Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org>]

On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 13:35, jeff wrote:
> first, send replies to me...not the list...
> 
> 
> i'm no script guru...what i would like to do is become familiar with
> piping output to a file and perhaps a little formatting..
> 
> for this example, i would like the output of 'dpkg -l' to be redirected
> to a file called dpkg.html. at the end of every package decription, i
> would like to add the <br> tag so it looks nice on the page.

Here's an example using perl.

dpkg -l | perl -pe 's/\n/<br>\n/' > dpkg.html

Check the manual pages 'perlrun' and 'perlre' for help on Perl's
switches and regular expression syntax.

-jwb



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