Re: sed feature request

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 06:24:50PM -0400, Karl Berry wrote:
> put a edit-in-place feature into every program (sort being the one

sed-4.0.x contains this feature.  You can get it from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sed/sed-4.0.7.tar.gz
and mirrors.

> for f in *; do
>   sed ... $f >$f.tmp
>   mv $f.tmp $f
> done

I often write such simple loops on my cmd line; so the -i option makes
little difference for me.

Stepan