Shell scripting substitution techniques

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi guys, I'm looking for some thoughts on this. I'm trying to do a clean 1 liner to substitute some values. What I have:

sed 's/Personid=.*/Personid=xxxxxx/' $tmpFileOut

sed 's/Person:.*/Person:xxxxxx/' $tmpFileOut

sed 's/PersonID:.*/PersonID: xxxxxx/' $tmpFileOut

Obviously that's a bit sucky, I'm repeating 3 lines which are all basically doing the same thing. I want to smarten it up. The thing they all have in common is that I'm looking for 'Person' and whatever is after that, and substituting it. Is there a cleaner way to do the above in one go?

Perl - I'm doing a substitution like this:

perl -pe 's/(?<![a-z])dog(?![a-z])/cat/g' $tmpFileOut

perl -pe 's/(?<![a-z])green(?![a-z])/blue/g' $tmpFileOut

again, I'm repeating lines - what's a cleaner way to do this in perl? I have like 15 lines of substitions, I'd like it short and sweet - what's the best way to do it? Put all substitions onto one line? how would I do that? or would some kind of array be the best way to do it?

Help/thoughts appreciated :cool:

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sed 's/\(Person\(id=\|:\|ID:\)\).*/\1XXXXXX/' infile

For second question,you need provide some sample inputs and expect output first.

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