Search & Replace

yhabibzai has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

'XYZ' appears in hundreds of locations in a file. I want to replace this string where ever it appears in this file, with say 'ABC'. Can anyone help me with this? I had like a 2 line perl script that someone had given me, which worked great! But I can't remember it anymore. I appreciate your help and this site! - yh.

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Re: Search & Replace by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Sep 16, 2002 at 06:25 UTC
`perl -pi -e's/XYZ/ABC/g' thefile.name anotherfile.name` After Compline, Zaxo	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Search & Replace by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Sep 16, 2002 at 09:37 UTC
And for the paranoid and the careful: `perl -pi.bak -e's/XYZ/ABC/g' thefile.name anotherfile.name` which will leave behind copies of the original files with `.bak` appended to their names. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Search & Replace by RMGir (Prior) on Sep 16, 2002 at 12:31 UTC
for the paranoid and the careful: Good advice, but don't make the same mistake I made once and run that twice to fix a typo or buglet. In that case, of course, the "wrong" versions generated by the first run will overwrite the .bak files. -- Mike	[reply]
Re: Re^3: Search & Replace by Anonymous Monk on Sep 16, 2002 at 16:56 UTC
Re^5: Search & Replace by RMGir (Prior) on Sep 16, 2002 at 17:15 UTC
Re: Search & Replace by fuzzyping (Chaplain) on Sep 16, 2002 at 06:25 UTC
`perl -pe 's/XYZ/ABC/' file1.pl > file2.pl` [download] -fp	[reply] [d/l]