Search and Replace email address within text file on command line

[gareth001]

I've a windows batch command that is being generated by an external product which inserts variables which will replace sections within a space delimeted data file. So below I'm searching for the value of "--d--" and replacing it with "email@domain.com"

perl -pe "s/--d--/email@domain.com                 /g"; C:\input.txt > C:\output.txt

The problem I have is because perl treats "@" as a system command and ignores everything after "email". The typical solution of adding a \ before the @ sign won't work, as the external product can't accomodate this. Is there a way I can treat everything that comes across within the email variables as non system variables?

I'm wanting to do this as a single line command.

Thanks



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[max1x]

perl -pe "s/--d--/\"email@domain.com\"/g";

 

[rharsh]

perl treats "@" as a system command and ignores everything after "email"

that's not exactly right - it's treating that particular bit of your code as the @domain array, which is empty. The easiest way to get around that is to escape the @ symbol by doing something like:

perl -pe "s/--d--/email[red][bold]\[/bold][/red]@domain.com/g[red][bold];[/bold][/red]" input.txt > output.txt

Also, it looks like you have the semicolon in the wrong spot.