Find replace not working

Zeno McDohl · 08-06-2007, 01:40 PM

Following this:
http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/116

Doesn't work. I'm doing:

Quote:

# cat test.txt
hi example@aol.com
example@aol.com test
example@aol.com
# perl -pi -e 's/example@aol.com/example@msn.com/g' test.txt
# cat test.txt
hi example@aol.com
example@aol.com test
example@aol.com

Nothing happened.

druuna · 08-06-2007, 01:49 PM

Hi,

The @ is special, you need to escape it:

perl -pi -e 's/example\@aol.com/example\@msn.com/g' test.txt

Hope this helps.