[NTLUG:Discuss] Quickest way to edit file?

[Wayne Walker]

MadHat beat me to it, but

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 11:19:09AM -0500, MadHat Unspecific wrote:
> Perl
> 
>   perl -pi -e 's/email\@address\n//' file
                 s/^email\@address\n//
Or you might delete wwalker at gmail.com along with walker at gmail.com

> Not saying it is easier than vi, but it is a way of doing it in one 
> command without haveing to rename files and such.
> 
> Details for those who care:
> 
> perl - the perl command
>   -pi - use the file specified as if it were called in a while loop
>         (see perlrun for details)
	actually, the -p does the above

	-i - edit each filename passed on the command line "in place"
	-i.bak - as above but keep the original file by renaming it.

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