Re: Sed replacement from file

On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 03:39:37AM -0700, Issac Trotts wrote: > perl -pe 's/^replace-this$/line one\nline two\nline three\n/' file1 file2 > > or > > cat some_file | perl -pe 's/^replace-this$/line one\nline two\nline three\n/' > > > Oddly enough, perl -ep doesn't work. That's not so odd if

Re: Sed replacement from file

On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 05:46:52 -0500 Stephan Sauerburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > s/^--sed-replace-here--$/line one\nline two\nline three/ > > just puts that one line in there with literal "n"'s where I put the \n. You could do sed -e 's/^--sed-replace-here--$/line one\ line two\ line three/

Re: Sed replacement from file

You might try this : perl -pe 's/^replace-this$/line one\nline two\nline three\n/' file1 file2 or cat some_file | perl -pe 's/^replace-this$/line one\nline two\nline three\n/' Oddly enough, perl -ep doesn't work. -ijt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u