Re: Sed replacement from file

[Issac Trotts <ijtrotts@ucdavis.edu>]

You might try this :

perl -pe 's/^replace-this$/line one\nline two\nline three\n/' file1 file2 

  or

cat some_file | perl -pe 's/^replace-this$/line one\nline two\nline three\n/' 


Oddly enough, perl -ep doesn't work.

-ijt