You want to use Perl to process things on the command line but you don’t want to write/save a file. You want to replace sed with something more clunky. :)

[user@server tmp]$ ls / | perl -e ‘while (){ print $_; }’
bin
boot
dev
etc
home
initrd
lib
lost+found
misc
mnt
opt
proc
root
sbin
tmp
usr
var
[user@server tmp]$ ls / | perl -e ‘while (){ print “/” . $_; […]

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