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in reply to Re^3: One liner to subtract by 2
in thread One liner to subtract by 2

Thanks Guys

the header is on the first line of my file so I'm doing the following

perl -pe 's/(0-9{10})$/sprintf("%010d", $1-2)/e if $. ==1' TONYFILE.DAT

for some reason it's not changing the count...it's still 496

any idea what i'm missing here?

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