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Another way to say that (Score:2)

by merlyn (47)
perl -i -pe 'BEGIN{undef$/}s/.../.../'

I find it easier to type:
perl -pi -0777 -e 's/foo/bar/'
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- Randal L. Schwartz
- Stonehenge
rsync? (Score:1)

by nicholas (3034)

(At least this way I didn't have to recompile and transfer a 350-k file over a slow dialup line.)

Why not rsync the old remote file to be identical to your corrected local copy?
- Re:rsync? (Score:2)
  
  by rafael (2125)
  
  You're assuming that I was connected to the remote host via a regular TCP/IP/telnet connection. I wasn't : this was a serial link, and I was transferring files via Ckermit. (And I'm unfamiliar with this kind of communication).

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