Hi all,

I have two files, abc.txt and xyz.txt. Say in abc.txt, I have a string REPLACE_HERE. And in xyz.txt, I have 2 lines:

hello

world

I want to replace the string "REPLACE_HERE" with "hello" and save it to a file named "hello" (and also repeat this step with the string "world").

Here is my bash script:

#!/bin/bash

while read p; do

        perl -pe 's%REPLACE_HERE%$p%g' abc.txt > $p

done <xyz.txt

I opened "hello" and found out that the text REPLACE_HERE is replaced by nothing. Why is that so?

In reply to Perl in Bash by khiawyen

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