[Gnu-arch-users] Re: new version hook script examples

[Miles Bader]

Mikhael Goikhman <address@hidden> writes:
>>   perl -e "..." -e "..."
>
> I would not suggest this for newbies, this joins the "..." strings using
> a newline, so one should still end the statements with a semicolon.
> Just use a single -s and any whitespace (including newlines) you like:
>
>   perl -pi -e 's/old1/new1/g; s/old2/new2/gi;'  file1 file2

That works in GNU sed too, and then you don't need the "-e", e.g.:

   sed -i 's/old1/new1/g; s/old2/new2/g' file1 file2

Very convenient.

[Old seds (like sunos or whatever) can't handle this type of thing though.]

-Miles
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