perl programs from the command line in the manner of sed?

OfficeLinebacker has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Esteemed Monks,

I ended up using a bunch of sed commands to alter a file I had into a format that I ultimately used with grep -f.

I'd like to learn more about how to use perl one-liners to do the same thing. I did a SuperSearch, but can't seem to figure out how to isolate 'sed' alone from 'used','uninitialised', etc.

Any recommendations on this? Or should I just stick with sed for quickie one-liners?

Thanks,

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Re: perl programs from the command line in the manner of sed? by kvale (Monsignor) on Apr 21, 2006 at 15:52 UTC
You may wish to try s2p, the sed to perl script, to get an idea of how to translate. Also check out perlrun for a number of useful runtime switches that make creating one liners much easier. -Mark	[reply]
Re: perl programs from the command line in the manner of sed? by davido (Cardinal) on Apr 21, 2006 at 16:00 UTC
The Perl documentation includes perlrun, which has most of the info you'll need, but it might not be enough of a "tutorial" style to really get you started. I wrote a node a little over a year ago that worked out to be a sort of crash course in one-liners; certanly not complete, but enough to get you started. You can find it here: Re: One Liners. Dave	[reply]
Re^2: perl programs from the command line in the manner of sed? by OfficeLinebacker (Chaplain) on Apr 21, 2006 at 16:03 UTC
Oh man, great Node! Thanks! Mark, thanks to you, too! T.	[reply]
Re: perl programs from the command line in the manner of sed? by blazar (Canon) on Apr 21, 2006 at 16:02 UTC
You should check perldoc perlrun, in particular you're likely to be interested in `-n`, `-p`, or the "chomping versions" `-ln`, `-lp`, possibly with inline modifying, `-i` and/or with changing the input record separator... As for PM's Super Search, try with `"oneliners"` et similia, although the results won't be focused on conversions from sed, they're likely to solve tasks similar to the ones you're interested in.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: perl programs from the command line in the manner of sed? by OfficeLinebacker (Chaplain) on Apr 21, 2006 at 18:21 UTC
Does your name rhyme with "Quasar" or "blazer?" Ok, so I see the search term I should be focusing on is oneliner and its derivatives...thanks! Also, s2p exists on my system! (seems relatively rare comapared to some of the other suggestions I've gotten, mostly re: modules). Time to "man up" on that! Thanks for treating a newbie so kindly.	[reply]
Re: perl programs from the command line in the manner of sed? by ghenry (Vicar) on Apr 23, 2006 at 20:17 UTC
Good ones at Favourite One-liners? HTH. Walking the road to enlightenment... I found a penguin and a camel on the way..... Fancy a yourname@perl.me.uk? Just ask!!!	[reply]