Scripting doubt

[mallik]

Hi everybody,

I have a text file contains data(including some dates and some matter) .

i want to change the date( which is in 02-02-82 format ) in the file where ever it is appeared to (03-03-0...


How we can do that ..

pls help me out......
Thanks in Advance.......

[wowbag1]

Hi Mallik,
If you want to change for example 02-02-82 to 03-03-07 do this:
on the command line in a shell type:
perl -p -i -e 's/02-02-82/03-03-07/g' myfile
myfile could be /home/fred/myfile.txt
and to back up original file add a suffix to the -i option. -i.bak.

Hope this helps