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The Perl 5 language interpreter. See also: `perldoc`.

Subcommands (1)

This command is an alias of `rename`.

Print lines from `stdin` [m]atching `regex1` and case [i]nsensitive `regex2`

perl -n -e 'print if m/regex1/ and m/regex2/i'

Say ([-E]) first match group, using a `regex`, ignoring space ([x]) in `regex`

perl -n -E 'say $1 if m/before ( group_regex ) after/x'

[i]n-place, with backup, [s]ubstitute all occurrence ([g]) of `regex` with a replacement

perl -i'.bak' -p -e 's/regex/replacement/g' path/to/files