Question

I’m trying to modify some scripts with a combination of Bash and Perl. The trouble is that Perl thinks that $index is its own variable, which is never defined:

for index in {1..25}; do
    perl -pi -e 's/\d+/$index/' cmd_$index.sh;
done

Is there a way to make $index wear its Bash cloak within the Perl one-liner?

Answer 1

Squeeze an export index; in the do loop. Refer to $ENV{index} in the body of the Perl program.

Alternatively: Use the double quotes "… $index … " to interpolate the shell variable into the expression that makes up the body of the Perl program. In case you want to expand this one-liner, take care to properly escape Perl expressions, such as $ on variable names, and perhaps backslashes, so that are interpreted by Perl, not the shell.