Tuesday, October 24th, 2006...8:35 am
Perl One Liner – Search Replace String in File
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This is one of the most useful perl one-liners. Search and Replace a string in a text file.
perl -0777 -i -pe 's/patterntomatch/replacewith/g' inputfile
Let's break this down
-0777: treat file as a single line, this way we don't have to worry about ranges on our regex.
-i: operate on file in place. super dangerous and fun. If you're a big wuss you could use -i.bak to automatically create a backup file.
-pe: loop over and print output.
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February 24th, 2011 at 2:16 pm
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