Re: Sed replacement from file
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 03:39:37AM -0700, Issac Trotts wrote:
> perl -pe 's/^replace-this$/line one\nline two\nline three\n/' file1 file2
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> or
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> cat some_file | perl -pe 's/^replace-this$/line one\nline two\nline three\n/'
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>
> Oddly enough, perl -ep doesn't work.
That's not so odd if you think about it: -e takes an argument, which is
the expression to run. If you say 'perl -ep foo', then 'p' is the
argument to -e.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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