in reply to multi-line in-place edits

perl -i -pe 's/(.+)/{$1}/' filename.txt

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Re^2: multi-line in-place edits
by Tuppence (Pilgrim) on Feb 15, 2005 at 19:02 UTC
    Yours wraps each line - I want the whole file wrapped. Although yours does get rid of the funny extra sets...
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