On May 18, Lance Murray said:
perl -i -p -e "s/oldhostname/newhostname/g" /etc/hosts
However, what is the syntax if I wanted to just process a text stream to stdout?, e.g.:
cat /etc/hosts | perl "s/in_text/out_text/g"
Simple: use the -p and -e switches, but not the -i switch.
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