[ale] sed

[timothy at meanor.net (timothy at meanor.net)]

Here's another perl solution:

perl -p -i.bak -e "s/abc/xyz/g" file

where "file" is the file you want to change.

This edits the file inline and saves the previous version to file.bak.

-Tim 



>>Hi,
>>
>>I want to take a text file and replace each occurrence of abc with 
>>xyz.  I know that this can be done with an editor like nano; however, 
>>I want to do this within a Perl script.   I think sed can be used to 
>>do this and I have known about it since my UNIX days, but have never 
>>used it. Can anyone tell me what the syntax would be?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Terry Bailey
>>
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