Re: Embedding perl in bash

Backtics are considered 'old school'. Here is an option using perl %ENV:

export INP2="A String of Text"
RES=$(perl  -e '($x=$ENV{INP2})=~s/String/Wall/;print $x')
echo $RES
A Wall of Text
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The best defense against logic is ignorance.

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Re^2: Embedding perl in bash by stevieb (Canon) on Oct 22, 2015 at 23:10 UTC
Is the use of the outer parens creating a form an inline shell function here?	[reply]
Re^3: Embedding perl in bash by NetWallah (Canon) on Oct 23, 2015 at 04:48 UTC
The command substitution Backticks `` and the preferred $(...) are equivalent. The best defense against logic is ignorance.	[reply]