Re: inplace - s shell script for you

[Tim Waugh]

On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 08:32:34PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:

> Victor Porton <address@hidden> 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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