[Linux-disciples] help me write a shell script

[Jamie Forrest]

Thanks Steve, I got it all working! If anyone wants to see the final  
result, let me know.
Jamie

On Jul 17, 2008, at 11:28 AM, Stephen R Laniel wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:23:58AM -0400, Jamie Forrest wrote:
>> Is there any way here to modify this to work on stdin rather than a
>> file?
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> use strict;
> use warnings;
>
> my $file_contents = join( '', <> );
> $file_contents =~ s#[^[:ascii:]]##gsmi;
> print $file_contents;
>
> So now you can do either
>
> /path/to/myscript.pl filename
>
> or
>
> cat filename | /path/to/myscript.pl
>
> or (it goes without saying)
>
> cat filename | command1 | command2 | \
>    command3 | ... | myscript.pl
>
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