Perl Find and Replace One Liner
I’m constantly needing a way to easily change a line in a bunch of configuration files. I thought I’d share the way I do it here.
perl -p -i -e 's/oldstring/newstring/g' *
This allows you to use a regular expression and perform the find and replace.
Random thoughts, rants, and computers.
Stefan
Why would you choose perl over sed? I’m just curious…
jglemza
I don’t think you can read and write to the same file with sed.