FreeBSD Fortune on Nostr: Want to use sed(1) to edit a file in place? Well, to replace every 'e' with an 'o', ...
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
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