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From: Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: Better ( rm foo; bar > foo ) < foo ?
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 15:24:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001203152440.A23776@dman.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87n1edeh8c.fsf@senstation.vvf.fi>; from azure@iki.fi on Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 04:01:39PM +0200

> TMPFILE=$(mktemp "$(dirname "$FILE")/XXXXXX") || exit 1
> sed 's/foo/bar/g' < "$FILE" > "$TMPFILE" || { rm -f "$TMPFILE" ; exit 1 }
> mv "$TMPFILE" "$FILE"

I find that

perl -pi -e 's/foo/bar/g' $FILE

is much less of a hassle, if that's the complexity you're dealing with.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-12-03 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-03 14:01 Hannu Koivisto
2000-12-03 17:48 ` Bart Schaefer
2000-12-03 23:17   ` Hannu Koivisto
2000-12-04  2:27     ` Bart Schaefer
2000-12-03 20:24 ` Clint Adams [this message]
2000-12-07 11:44 ` Danny Dulai
2000-12-07 14:17   ` Andrej Borsenkow
2000-12-07 17:10     ` Bart Schaefer

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