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From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de>
To: Benoit Lacherez <blacherez@ac-bordeaux.fr>
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	j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Why does 'sed' delete my input file?
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Benoit Lacherez writes:

>You're right!  I had never done that with a big file, but actually it
>is truncated.  So I'll do with a temporary file, now.

if you want to do in-place editing, you can also use ed (the standard
text editor) by giving it its commands on stdin.

--mkb


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