On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 04:47:15PM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> Note the excessive use of "perl -i -pe 's/foo/bar/'" for in-place
> substitution. I've asked on at least two occasions for a simple,
> easy-to-use, thing to do it without doing a two-liner that copies to
> another file, and then replaces the old file with the new file.

If it weren't for perl, we'd probably already have `sed -i' :-)

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