[Techtalk] Re: real life kewl text-processing and regexps samples wanted

[Aaron Malone]

On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 14:31:07 +0100
dominik.schramm at gmxpro.net wrote:
> If I read perlrun(1) correctly -i alone does not create backup files.
> -i.blah does, with extension .blah added to the original file name.

It's worth noting that recent versions of GNU sed (and others -- sed on
my DragonFly box has it, so I assume FreeBSD does; I haven't checked the
other BSDs) also supports the -i[suffix] option for in-place editing.

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Aaron Malone
aaron at munge.net