Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Perl One Liner - Search Replace String in File
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 [...]
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