Hi,
I want to do a simple search replace on a unix command prompt. What i require is a syntax to do is? echo "I am Manish"|<perl command> output I am Jeff.
Please help.
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There must be a better way but what comes to my mind is
echo "I am Manish" | perl -e 'while(<>){ s/Manish/Jeff/g ; print "$_"}'
BTW why would you want to do it in perl A much faster alternative will be echo "I am Manish" | sed 's;Manish;Jeff'
Bye Ram
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