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Dewed (User)

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Search and replace with a PERL one liner 7 Months, 3 Weeks ago Karma: 7

Quite possibly the most used item in my bag of tricks

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perl -pi -e "s/old text/new text/gi;" filename.txt

Remove the g to only replace the 1st occurance of old text. Remove the i to make it case sensitive.

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2008/05/20 14:21

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