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command-line perl

Published in: Perl 

URL: http://perl.com/pub/a/2004/08/09/commandline.html?page=2

couple of useful snippets from an article I found at Perl.com

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  1. #print the result of search-and-replace to the terminal
  2. perl -pe 's/bart/milhouse/g' test.html
  3.  
  4. #search-and-replace, with backup
  5. #leave the suffix off of -i to overwrite
  6. perl -i.bak -pe 's/bart/milhouse/g' test.html
  7.  
  8. #echo the number of lines in a file
  9.  perl -lne 'END { print $t } @w = /(\w+)/g; $t += @w' test.html
  10.  
  11. #cat file with line numbers
  12. # -p prints $_ each iteration
  13. perl -pe '$_ = "$. = $_"' test.html

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