Why I Like Perl

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One-Liners

• highly useful even from command line
• amazing utilities can be written as one-liners
• search and replace and backup

    perl -pe -i.bak 's/PERL/Perl/g' txt

  • -e execute this command
  • -p loop over each line and print
  • -i inplace edit, make a backup file

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