Re: How to replace some string in file

[email protected] (ram)
Newsgroups perl.beginners
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 12:32 +0530, Santosh Reddy wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have a file called a.txt which has the following lines
> 
> abcd
> efgh
> ijkl
> abcd123
> 12abcd
> 
> I want to replace abcd with xyz.
> 
> how do i do this. thanks a lot in advance
> 


perl -pli -e 's/abcd/xyz/' a.txt
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