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Re: edit a file in place



 On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 02:47:54PM -0400, Derek Martin wrote: 
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 12:59:53PM -0400, Matthew Gillen wrote: 
> > Derek Martin wrote: 
> > >A coworker asked me if I could think of any Linux/Unix utility which 
> > >would allow him to change one line of a file in place (i.e. without 
> > >creating a temporary file a la sed 
> > 
> > "sed -i" edits in place without using temp files. 
> 
> Cool, I never knew that.  Turns out Perl does too (same command line 
> option). 


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