On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 09:07:38PM +0000, Carl Spalletta wrote:
> 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'.
Yes, sed -i :)
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