-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 MHR wrote: > Second, that won't work. Sed does not perform on files in place - its > output is sent to stdout unless it is redirected, and you can't > redirect it back to the original file. To do something this way, > you'd need a script that replaced the input file and used 'sed' to > generate the new one (and then the script would have to rename it). Au contraire: - From the sed man page: -i[SUFFIX], --in-place[=SUFFIX] edit files in place (makes backup if extension supplied) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFI4rJJCFu3bIiwtTARArCgAJ9Ov/hR5rZJZxn3t2vqqJYwcCHztQCgldo+ aqaYmuuDKk/eWwTR/8f5qPg= =IkKM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----