Useful sed scripts and patterns

Re:Useful sed scripts and patterns by kerblang on Friday November 12, 2021 @01:08PM (#29202564)

Wait I need to toss an extra bomb over the wall and point out the superiority of swapping "sed" out for "perl -pe" and getting everything sed had plus superior regex without needing to learn much of anything new.

(I might be wrong about "everything" but that's what bomb-tossing is all about)

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Re:Useful sed scripts and patterns by sitkack on Friday November 12, 2021 @02:38PM (#29203641)

Welcome to the discussion. I like it, I haven't perled in a while but does that mean you can evolve from a one liner to a full program using all of perl using this technique?

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Re:Useful sed scripts and patterns by kerblang on Friday November 12, 2021 @08:21PM (#29206444)

I suppose it's a "pathway to perl" in the sense of a mild gateway drug. Perl is definitely one-liner-friendly. Every time I get into Perl I have to relearn it all over again (which is apparently not an isolated phenomenon), so I don't have great suggestions for digging further. I just habitually reach for perl -pe about 3/4 of the time.

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