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Re: [patch] sed(1) - edit files in-place

From: Thorsten Glaser (tg66h.42h.de)
Date: Mon Oct 03 2005 - 13:47:55 CDT


Christian Weisgerber dixit:

>Joerg Sonnenberger <joergbritannica.bec.de> wrote:
>
>> Let me add two comments about this specific feature. The first is that
>> it is very handy for patching third party source code, since it saves
>> the hassle of reverting to ed or having to copy the files first.
>
>In the ports tree we just use perl -i.

ed(1) is less bloat.

//mirabile
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