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In article <48o3if$qtp@shellx.best.com>, Zenin  <zenin@best.com> wrote:
: I'm having a problem with sed. -It doesn't like really long single lines.
: (in the order of 100k+ plus characters... :)
: 
: I'm hoping perl can handle them a little better.
: So if I wanted to do somthing like "sed 's/string1/string2/g' filename" in
: perl how would I do it? -From a sh script?

perl -pe 's/string1/string2/g' filename

It's in the man page for perl.

: I also can't figure out how to put control characters and high ascii in 
: regular expressions.  Is their a way to use their hex values?  Tr can do it,
: can sed? perl? awk? -The man pages haven't helped nor has the unix faq...

In perl, you can put them in octal with backslashes, as in \033 for
escape.  Have fun getting that kind of stuff past shells if you're
going to use perl -e constructs.

--Dave
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