Re: [Sheflug] sed Help

[Dave Mitchell <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 06:35:08PM -0400, Dave Page wrote:
> I don't talk sed either, but I know what I'm doing with perl...
[snip]
> $ perl -pe 's!^!/mnt/home/aland/!' oldfile.py > newfile.py
> 
> should do the trick nicely.

or if you want the files edited in-place, then

$ perl -i -pe 's!^!/mnt/home/aland/!' file.py

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