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Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 15:24:40 -0500
From: Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: Better ( rm foo; bar > foo ) < foo ?
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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.