On Sunday, April 10, 2016, Jack J. Woehr <[email protected]> wrote: > Peng Yu wrote: > >> Hi, sed has an option `--in-place` to allow the change to a file >> in-place. But I don't find a similar option in m4. Does anybody know >> there is a similar option that I can use for in-place modification of >> a file? Thanks. >> >> No, but you can use the Linux mktemp command and pipe to the temp file > then copy it back.
This does not maintain file mode. > > -- > Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of > www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the > universe > www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - > Carl Sagan > > -- Regards, Peng
