Question

I have multiple email id’s in some config files in a directory; I’m running my scripts on a Solaris machine. I want to perform the following:

Find all the email_id’s in the config files in a directory:
eg: [e-mail] ; [e-mail] ; [e-mail] ; [e-mail]

Replace all existing id’s with:
[e-mail]

The following implementation can help me replace “hotmail” with “gmail” for all the email id’s in the config files. But i’m a little confused to solve the above problem

perl -pi -e 's/\@hotmail/\@gmail/g' *

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Try

's/\S+@hotmail\.com/[e-mail]/g'