A little too "off the cuff":
perl -p -i.bak -e 's/^(.*text-you-are-searching-for.*)$/${1}text-to-append/;' name-of-file-to-modify.txt
Also untested...
>>> troy.johnson at health.state.mn.us 04/15/02 11:54AM >>>
Off the cuff:
perl -p -i.bak -e 's/^(.*text-you-are-searching-for.*)$/${1}text-to-append/;'
>>> amy at real-time.com 04/15/02 11:39AM >>>
What's the simplest way to do the following in perl:
Take as input a file. Search for a line containing a particular string.
Then append to that line.
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