Convert sed to perl

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Can anyone convert this from sed to perl:

sed -n '/\var\/log/p' /etc/syslog.conf

I think Ive looked at this to much....urgh..

Thanks
Ben

2

Did you meant to convert

sed -n '/\/var\/log/p' /etc/syslog.conf
3

Im sorry I dont understand what your asking. I need to convert it from sed to a perl command.

Thanks
Ben

4

Try this,

perl -nle "print if(/\/var\/log/)" /etc/syslog.conf
5

In your code you are trying to print /var/log.
But in your first post you didn't escape the slash properly.
That is the question from Mr.devtakh

6

What your sed is doing is printing all the lines which has /var/log in it (emulates "grep").

Now to do same easiest way is

perl -nle 'print if /pattern/' file(s)

so kind of one liner in perl.

$ perl -nle 'print if /\var\/log/' /etc/syslog.conf