On Wed, 18 May 2005, Lance Murray wrote: > 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" > > I'm sure the answer is fairly simple. I'd just like to use perl one > liners in place of awk, cut, grep statements (and get all Perls > advanced regex capability).
This is really a shell thing, not a Perl matter: use '-' as a stand-in for standard input: $ cat /etc/hosts | perl "s/in_text/out_text/g" - (And you realize, I assume, that this is a Useless Use Of Cat, right? I assume you're just using this as an example...) -- Chris Devers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
