Add a tip about using sed(1)'s FreeBSD-specific -i option.

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Juli Mallett 2002-09-04 23:28:35 +00:00
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@ -490,3 +490,13 @@ try the following pkg_info command.
pkg_info | sort | sed -e 's/-[0-9].*$//' | \
uniq -c | grep -v '^[[:space:]]*1'
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Want to use sed(1) to edit a file in place? Well, to replace every 'e' with
an 'o', in a file named 'foo', you can do:
sed -i.bak s/e/o/g foo
And you'll get a backup of the original in a file named 'foo.bak', but if you
want no backup:
sed -i '' s/e/o/g foo