[help] perl one-liners

[SkivviS]

trying to just append a closing paragraph tag "</p>" to the end of every line in a file using:
perl -pe s/$/\<\/p\>/ < text.txt > temp.txt

running this gives me: Substitution replacement not terminated at -e line 1.

if i try:
perl -pe 's/$/\<\/p\>/' < text.txt > temp.txt
i get: Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.

any ideas?

 

[Irn-Bru]

Your first and second lines of code are identical?

 

[Got Haggis?]

'perl' necklace

 

[jsut]

use sed ?

cat lol | sed "s/$/<\/p>/"
lsidjflj'isjfda</p>
ijdsa</p>
fijdsiajfdisjaf</p>
idsjf</p>
adsij</p>

 

[jsut]

or just put the regular expression in quotes apparetly

perl -pe 's/$/<\/p>/' lol
lsidjflj'isjfda</p>
ijdsa</p>
fijdsiajfdisjaf</p>
idsjf</p>
adsij</p>

 

[SkivviS]

used sed and it worked as i needed, so thanks.

sed -i -e "s/$/<\/p>/" text.txt ~for in-line editing~

but any idea why the perl command was failing?

 

[SkivviS]

Your first and second lines of code are identical?

yeah forgot the single-quotes

 

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