How to substitute dates in Perl?

Question

perl -pi.back -e \'s/2013/07/31-05:54:14/2014/07/31-00:00:00/g;\' /tmp/ranjan/replace.SEL

I\'m using the above one liner to replace the date from

Answer 1

You have to change your delimeter or you have properly escape your regexp strings.

The dilmeter could be anything non printable, i like to use !.

like this:

s!2013/07/31-05:54:14!2014/07/31-00:00:00!g;