[Techtalk] Re: real life kewl text-processing and regexps samples wanted

[Ricky Buchanan]

dominik.schramm at gmxpro.net wrote:
> Ricky Buchanan <rb at tertius.net.au> writes:
> > [...]
> > perl -pie 's/\bgossamer\b/rb/g' *.txt
> > will swap every instance of the word (as a word) "gossamer" to "rb" in
> > *.txt in the current directory, making a backup of each file as
> > originalfilename.bak (that's the -i) just in case of grevious error (and
> If I read perlrun(1) correctly -i alone does not create backup files.
> -i.blah does, with extension .blah added to the original file name.

Oops, you're right.  The snippet was actually

perl -pi.bak e 's/\bgossamer\b/rb/g' *.txt

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