Re: a sed equivelent

2004-07-26 Thread Ramprasad A Padmanabhan
This should do your work, as long as your strings dont have any special chars. perl -pli.BAK -e 's/OLDSTRING/NEWSTRING/g' FILENAME (You can also use it for multiple files and will create a .BAK file incase you want to revert ) HTH Ram On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 17:21, Jerry M. Howell II wrote: > he

RE: a sed equivelent

2004-07-26 Thread Bob Showalter
Jerry M. Howell II wrote: > hello all, > >I'm just beginning to work with sed in shell scripts I was > wondering if anyone has a simmilar script in perl they can send my > way or what the perl equivelent of the sed /s would be. Here is the > coresponding shell script if it'll help you understa