perl + ignore "/" char in perl

Question

I want to replace the string America/Adak with America/Jamaica by:

       perl -i -pe "s/$A/$B/"  /etc/sysconfig/clock

please advice what need to update in the perl syntax ? ( the problem is that I have "/" so need to ignore this uniq character , what need to add to my perl syntax?

 A="America/Adak"
 B="America/Jamaica"
 CLOCK=/etc/sysconfig/clock

 perl -i -pe "s/$A/$B/" $CLOCK

 Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 1, near "s/America/Adak/America"
 syntax error at -e line 1, near "s/America/Adak/America"
 Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

 more $CLOCK
 # The ZONE parameter is only evaluated by system-config-date.
 # The timezone of the system is defined by the contents of /etc/localtime.
 ZONE="America/Adak"
 UTC=true
 ARC=false

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 17 '11 at 15:59

5

Use a different delimiter, for example:

perl -i -pe "s|$A|$B|" $CLOCK

See the perlre man page.

answered Nov 17 '11 at 15:59

Phil Hollenback

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well done !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! – Diana Nov 17 '11 at 16:14
You can use most special characters as delimiters in perl and in sed. – Bruno9779 Apr 17 '15 at 01:26

perl + ignore "/" char in perl

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