Re: [Sheflug] sed Help

[Dave Page <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 12:53:20AM +0100, Alex Hudson wrote:

> > $ perl -pe 's!^!/mnt/home/aland/!' oldfile.py > newfile.py

> Pah. Waste of a regex.
> perl -e'print"/mnt/home/aland/$_"foreach(<>);'<oldfile.py>newfile.py

> Much quicker :)

Well, if you're gonna be like *that*... :p

perl -ne 'print "/mnt/home/aland/$_"' oldfile.py > newfile.py

Or just:

perl -pe 'print "/mnt/home/aland/"' oldfile.py > newfile.py

I was trying to keep it sed-like for ease of understanding :p

Dave
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