Thank you for your question. A Perl script would be an excellent solution for your requirement. Here's a sample Perl one-liner that should do the job quickly and efficiently:
perl -pe 's/\|\|/\|\N\|/g' input_file > output_file
This command will read the input file and replace all occurrences of "||" with "|\N|". The output will be written to the output file. You can replace "input_file" and "output_file" with the appropriate filenames.
This command uses the "-p" option to read the input file line by line and apply the substitution command to each line. The "s" command is used for substitution, and the "g" modifier is used to perform the replacement globally, i.e., all occurrences of "||" will be replaced.
This command should work very quickly, even on very large files. If you have any other questions or requirements, please let me know. I would be happy to help!
Best regards.