Junio C Hamano wrote: > > + 'perl -pi -e "s/^1A.*\n$//; s/^3A/99/" file && > > GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="D" git commit -a -m "edit"' > > The first line in the original is removed while the perl version > seems to just makes it empty -- ah, you remove the trailing LF > as well there. I've never seen this done like this, but OK. > > It would have been more obvious if it were written like this: > > $_ = "" if ($. == 1); > > but probably it is just me. I have no strong preference. Sometimes I find all those magic perl variables like $. $| $, $" and so on hard to distinguish without looking in the manual... Regards, Dennis - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html