On 13:24 04 Jan 2003, Marco Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| What I want:
| Take file.txt and *strip* out "foo" and replace with "bar", *but* I
| don't want to redirect to a tmp file or anything: I would like one
| command.
|
| Perl:
| 1. perl -pi -e 's/foo/bar/g' file.txt
|
| SED, for example:
| 1. sed 's/foo/bar/g' file.txt > file.txt.tmp
| 2. mv file.txt.tmp file.txt
|
| So perl does what I want to, but I'd prefer to stay with awk, sed, or
| whatever GNU utils, if possible.
Then you want "bsed":
http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/scripts/bsed
thus:
bsed 's/foo/bar/g' file.txt
Bsed is a shell wrapper for sed. I use it VERY heavily - it's remarkably
useful to me.
If you want something more flexible (but also more cumbersome) you might grab
filteredit:
http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/scripts/filteredit
thus (example):
filteredit file.txt awk '{print NR, $0}'
It's a wrapper for _any_ filterlike command, to edit in place.
Cheers,
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