On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 08:32:34PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: > 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
Come to that, so is GNU sed when you use its '--in-place' option. Tim. */
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