in reply to regex question with balanced text
Your shell is getting you. You could put your one-liner into a file and specify that filename rather than the -e 'string' in the xargs command.
perl -pi ssi2php.pl
Ivan Heffner
Sr. Software Engineer
WhitePages.com, Inc.
Sr. Software Engineer
WhitePages.com, Inc.
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