Linux command to replace string in LARGE file with another string

Question

I have a huge SQL file that gets executed on the server. The dump is from my machine and in it there are a few settings relating to my machine. So basically, I want every oc

Answer 1

perl -pi -e 's#c://temp#//home//some//blah#g' yourfilename

The -p will treat this script as a loop, it will read the specified file line by line running the regex search and replace.

-i This flag should be used in conjunction with the -p flag. This commands Perl to edit the file in place.

-e Just means execute this perl code.

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