[Chicago-talk] replace in place

[JT Smith]

I remember having a really great tutorial on doing things in one line from the command 
line in perl, but I can't remember how it all worked. Could somebody help me out? I have 
a make file that has a line in it I wish to replace. The line looks like:

prefix=/usr/local

And I would like it to be

prefix=/data/prereqs

I can very easily write a little script to read in the file find and replace that 
string, but I'd rather do the cool single command line trick.

Thanks for the help.


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