in reply to simple substitution

perl -pi.bak -e 's/this/that/g' file.txt

cheers

tachyon

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Re: Re: simple substitution
by jweed (Chaplain) on Jan 04, 2004 at 08:13 UTC
    Or, equivalently, 
    local $^I = '.bak';
while (<>) {
    s/this/that/g;
    print;
}

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    Who is Kayser Söze?
    Code is (almost) always untested.
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[d/l]

      Challenge: find the quote -> 'too many notes (jweed), too many notes'

      cheers

      tachyon

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        I used just as many notes as were necessary. Neither more nor less, Mr. Emperor of Austria. Plus, If he wants to do more than just a simple substitution eventually a one-liner quickly becomes unwieldy.


        Who is Kayser Söze?
        Code is (almost) always untested.
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