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using perl on the command line, like sed or awk

Hello,

Using sed or awk, I can quickly parse and perform operations on the
command line itself as in:

cat file | sed 's/cat/dog'
cat file | awk ' /cat/ {print "found the cat"} '

How can i do something like the above in perl on the command line
without having to write a script in a seperate file?

Thanks
-s
Jul 19 '05 #1
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sm*******@excite.com (gorda) wrote in
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Hello,

Using sed or awk, I can quickly parse and perform operations on the
command line itself as in:

cat file | sed 's/cat/dog'
cat file | awk ' /cat/ {print "found the cat"} '

How can i do something like the above in perl on the command line
without having to write a script in a seperate file?


perl -pe 's/cat/dog/' file

See 'perldoc perlrun'

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Eric
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ts p , map $ _. $ " , qw e p h tona e and print
Jul 19 '05 #2
> How can i do something like the above in perl on the command line
without having to write a script in a seperate file?

$ perl -e 'print 123;'

Jul 19 '05 #3

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