Re: edit a file in place

["Derek Martin-9" <user=7@nabble.blu.org>]

 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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