perl doesn't actually edit the file in place, it just automates the tmp file handling.
On Mar 22, 2011, at 1:10 AM, Bret Lambert <bret.lamb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:45 PM, William Boshuck <bos...@math.mcgill.ca> wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 01:18:41PM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote: >> >>> OpenBSD's form of sed requires you to output to a new file and >>> mv that back to original. >> >> .. or one could use ed, or perl, to change a file in place. > > What happens if ed, or perl, corrupts a system file in place? > >> >> -wb
