[svlug] edit a 1GB file

[Karsten M. Self]

on Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 09:38:59AM -0800, William R Ward (bill at wards.net) wrote:
> Rufoo writes:
> >
> >--- Will Lowe <harpo at thebackrow.net> wrote:

> >> together again.
> >> 
> >> or perhaps:
> >> 
> >> perl -pi -e 's/^some line$/some other line/g'
> >> 
> >> "man perlrun" for more.
> >
> >Why even perl when sed can do the same. 
> 
> How?  To the best of my knowledge, the equivalent in sed would require
> adding a redirect and a "mv" command.  That's not just sed, that's
> sed, shell, and mv.  Perl lets you do it in one command.

Perl merely hides these steps from you.  The write new and mv old => new
are done behind your back.  _The Perl Cookbook_ and/or _Programming
Perl_ describe this process.

Peace.

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