On 3 Aug 2017, at 18:46, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: > You could run a two-command sed manually (with system, not reinplace). Or > maybe you can use awk, or an ed script.
This works. Caveat emptor: || (empy RE) doesn't work and range seems to start on first line, not on its subsequent. reinplace -E 1,/foo/s|foo|foo\\\n\\\tbar| file > I can't remember anybody asking for this functionality (replace first > occurrence) before, so that's why there isn't an easy way to do it. I needed to add disabled/true to a startup item provided by a port's source.
