SPUG: perl one-liner help

[Tim Maher]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 03:08:47PM -0700, Duane Blanchard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This should be the simplest thing, but I'm not able to get it.
> I have a list of names in a file separated by a semicolon and a space:
> Starr, Ringo; McCartney, Paul; Lennon, John; Harrison, George;
> and I want to substitute each /; / with a /\n/.
> I'm running WinXP.
> 
> perl -e "s/; /\n/" desktop/list.txt
> Thanks for any tips.
> Thx,
> D
> Duane Blanchard

FYI, I'm giving a talk entitled "Harnessing the Power of Perl's One-Liners"
at LinuxFest Northwest, up in Bellingham from 4/27-28. See lfnw.org
for details.

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