I think this might be something along the lines of what you want ... 
use strict;
use File::Copy;

my $dest_file = "email.lst";
my $searchstr = 'blue';
my $repstr    = 'foo';

open(FL, $dest_file) or die("Doh - $!");

# turn on inplace edit flag (see. man perlvar)
$^I = '~';
s/$searchstr/$repstr/g while <FL>;

close(FL);

move($dest_file, $repstr);

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This just opens a file, does a search and replace within the file (see. the $^I variable), then renames it to the new file. This could probably be done in a line or two of shell and perl, but this is nice'n'pure :o)
HTH

broquaint

In reply to Re: Search and replace by broquaint
in thread Search and replace by rscott212

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