Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

["Marius Roets" <roets.marius@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/4/06, Sylvester Lykkehus <zly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm curious, why use the perl command instead of just:
> sed 's/\$/\n/g' filename.txt > fixed.txt
>
> What exactly does perl -i -pe do different ?
Well, nothing at all :). It's just a different way of doing the same thing.

Personally I never bothered to learn sed or awk, quite simply because
I could handle their functionality easily with perl. Perl has the
added benefit of being quite a powerful and verstatile  programming
language.

Marius