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Re: [patch] sed(1) - edit files in-place
From: Hannah Schroeter (hannah
schlund.de)
Date: Mon Oct 03 2005 - 14:35:10 CDT
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Hello!
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 03:22:20PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>At 6:17 PM +0000 10/3/05, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>>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.
>In FreeBSD-land, this feature was added to 'sed' just so we could
>remove one dependency on perl. If you do not need perl for anything
>else, then it's a rather large package to require just so you can do
>'-i' edits.
This is OpenBSD and has perl in base, anyway.
Kind regards,
Hannah.
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