Re: Diffs from CVS keyword expansion

From: Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>
Date: Dec 5, 2006, 19:45 UTC
Message-ID: <86k616m8i9.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061205121443.GB2428@cepheus>

>>>>> "Uwe" == Uwe Kleine-Koenig <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> writes:

Uwe> #! /bin/sh Uwe> exec perl -i -p -e 's/\$(Id|Revision):.*?\$/\$$1: \$/' "$@";

Ow. My eyes hurt from that. How about we rewrite that as a native Perl script:

    #!/usr/bin/perl
    $^I = ""; # this is -i
    while (<>) {
      s/\$(Id|Revision):.*?\$/\$$1: \$/;
      print;
    }

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