On Sep 11, 2007, at 10:05 PM, Gerald Wheeler wrote:
Correct
That can be done with a one-liner:
perl -0777 -pi.bak -e '$_ = q{new text goes here}' *.txt
The options -p, -i, and -e are documented in perlrun. The flag -0777
has the side-effect of slurping the whole file into $_ (one file at a
time), it is documented in perlrun as well, under -0.
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