Re^2: Search & Replace

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.

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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
what about adding BEGIN{$^I=time} ?	[reply]
Re^5: Search & Replace by RMGir (Prior) on Sep 16, 2002 at 17:15 UTC
Interesting. But, like doing BEGIN{$\|=1}, that starts to make 1-liners a bit clunky... This might be a good trick for another module like Simple autoflush module, though. -- Mike	[reply]