On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Anand D Sankruthi wrote: > Hi all, > I have a set of 6 lines in a file. i want to replace all these lines by a > set of new lines (which is a subset of the old lines). can any one tell me > the easiest way of doing this using perl?? > perl -pi -e 's/^.*\n$/\n/g;' file The above replaces all lines in 'file' with a newline. Sreeji