Is there a way to edit-in-place with sed on Mac OS X? Byron Clark wrote:
>On 4/30/07, Eduardo Sanz Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>This statment works well on linux: >>sed s/e/a/ -i hello.txt >>hello.txt is edited in place. >> >>Why is sed not doing the same on macs? >>[lynx:~] esanzgar% sed s/e/a/ -i hello.txt >>*sed: -i: No such file or directory* >> >> > >Because 'sed -i' is a gnu extension and the Mac OS X sed is BSD based. >-------------------- >BYU Unix Users Group >http://uug.byu.edu/ > >The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their >author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. >___________________________________________________________________ >List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
