in reply to Remove '>' from email

Perl does allow you to run regex 'in place'. The below example should work. 
perl -i -ape 's/^>//g' file.txt

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Re^2: Remove '>' from email
by oko1 (Deacon) on Mar 05, 2008 at 15:03 UTC 
    perl -i -ape 's/^>//g' file.txt

    The '-a' is unnecessary, since there's no need to auto-split anything. Replacing it with a '-w', though, might be of benefit since mistypes happen. :)

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