Marco, Using vi you can....
vi file.txt -w scriptfile and any commands you enter in the editor will automatically be recorded and placed in the file "scriptfile". (Just enter your global replacement command and exit.) Now, on any file that you want to execute this script file against, issue ... vi anyfile.txt -s scriptfile and the "scriptfile" will be executed against "anyfile.txt" I believe vi will internally create a temporary file but I'm assuming that you simply want to eliminate a manual step. You'll have to create the scriptfile one time but after that, its a one line command each time without redirection. Regards, Mike Klinke On Saturday 04 January 2003 17:24, Marco Shaw wrote: > What I want: > Take file.txt and *strip* out "foo" and replace with "bar", *but* I > don't want to redirect to a tmp file or anything: I would like one > command. > > Perl: > 1. perl -pi -e 's/foo/bar/g' file.txt > > SED, for example: > 1. sed 's/foo/bar/g' file.txt > file.txt.tmp > 2. mv file.txt.tmp file.txt > > So perl does what I want to, but I'd prefer to stay with awk, sed, or > whatever GNU utils, if possible. > > Can it be done? > > Marco -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
