Re: search and replace command with output

2008-08-14 Thread samrya
Xavier, Thanks for the tip but can you help me by pasting the code too? It might take 2 mins for you but I will have to fiddle with it longer :( Regards. On Aug 14, 6:02 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Xavier Mas) wrote: > El Wednesday 13 August 2008 22:44:11 [EMAIL PROTECTED] va escriure: > > > Hi, > >

search and replace command with output

2008-08-14 Thread samrya
Hi, I am trying to search & replace a string in a file using the below perl command on unix. perl -pi -e 's/OLD/NEW/g' repltest.txt But I want the above command to display what lines were replaced. Is it possible using some switch options? If it is not possible using any of the switches, I don