Recently I tried passing a bash variable to perl command in bash script, it didn’t end well. Troy Engel from was nice enough to point out the issue: use sed instead of perl for what you need; it’s simpler, faster…
I spent forever trying to figure out how to unwrap an apache access_log that was splitting requests between two lines. I finally found the answer! Create a perl script called unwrap.pl and run the script like this: # perl unwrap.pl…
perl replace text in multiple files perl -pi -e ‘s~OLDTEXT~NEWTEXT~g’ /path/to/filenames/* Alternative (to avoid escaping slashes): perl -pi -e ‘s|w/|with|g’
here’s how to replace text in a file with perl: perl -pi -e ‘s~OLDTEXT~NEWTEXT~g’ /path/to/filename
