On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 22:14 -0400, Tony Baldwin wrote: > > I've been learning to use sed and awk and grep, etc., lately. > I have a general question (probably more appropriate elsewhere, but I'm > going to ask here anyway. Smack me later.). > > Why is it that with sed, stuff like > sed -e /searchterm/d > I have to do > sed -e /searchterm/d infile > outfile, > and can't just do sed -e /searchterm/d file, without having to generate > another file?
Try sed's -i option for in-place edits -- for appropriate versions of sed. (see `man sed`) Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
