[Trenches tip] The most handiest Perl one liner I teach

One of my favourite little tricks to teach.  Comes in especially handy when you want to do huge changes on database dumps.

perl -i -p -e “s/text_to_change/text_to_change_to/g;” filename.txt

 

For the days when your text editor can’t open a 50mb file.

 

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