Hi List, On Friday, January 03, 2014 10:57:13 AM kurtz le pirate wrote:
> have you try this kind of command : > perl -p -i -e "s/oneThing/otherThing/g" yourFile I was about to post the same thing. My suggestion: Create a backup file just in case something goes wrong. perl -pi.bak -e "s/oneThing/otherThing/g" yourFile This creates a backup named "yourFile.bak" prior to processing yourFile. > hang or not ? I have processed files > 2G this way, no problems encountered. Regards, Jan -- When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. -- Oscar Wilde - -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
