Victor Porton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you should include this my script in GNU Core Utilities or an other > GNU package. Don't allow it to be lost as it is a very handy thing. ... > echo "Performs inplace editing of a file." ... > echo 'Example: inplace -v file.txt "sed -e s/John/Paul/g \$IN > \$OUT"'
Thanks, but I think Perl is just fine for this sort of task: perl -pi.bak -e s/John/Paul/g file.txt _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
