The following, of course, doesn't work: sed -e s/foo/bar/g < x > x But is there any way to have the same file as input and output using any form of shell redirection, but WITHOUT using a temporary file? That is just with shell constructs without using, e.g. the inplace option to 'perl'. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
