#!/usr/bin/perl -w my $searchExp = $ARGV[0]; my $replaceExp = $ARGV[1]; my $textIn = ; my $count = 0; # Do the replacing eval "\$count = (\$textIn =~ s/$searchExp/$replaceExp/go)"; if ($count > 0) { print $textIn; } exit; #### >> echo 'JHTML `Java in here` code' | perl p11.pl '`(.*)`' '<%=$1%>' JHTML <%=Java in here%> code