--- Frank Newland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to use perl to do what I can't do on large files with sed.
>
> 1. I run the following Unix command:
> $prompt> sed -f list_of_changes original > outputfile
>
> 2. Extract of list_of_changes:
>
> s/KAREN/LAURA /g
> s/KARA/MONA/g
> s/MIKE/OMAR/g
> s/BOB/TOM/g
> .......
>
> 3. The file list_of_changes contains 6000+ lines and sed balks at
> such a large set of commands.
> How can I do this in perl?
Test this, but try:
perl -p list_of_changes original > outputfile
Did I miss anything, anyone?
(c.f. perldoc perlrun for an explanation of -p)
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