Re: [SLUG] perl substitution of metacharacter

[Erich Schulz <erich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> My entry in the "neat one liner" competition to do this is:
> $ perl -p -i -e "s/\000//g" infile
> 
> in the days before Perl you would use sed to do it.

I would still use sed to do it, in particular from a shell script which may
process a large  number of files.

Sed is much quicker to load than perl.

Cheers

Erich

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