[ale] sed

David Tomaschik ozone at webgroup.org
Thu May 17 21:51:39 EDT 2007


Jamey Owens wrote:
> One note of caution.  It can be pretty dangerous to try and use the same 
> file for input and output.  Lots of shells will leave you with a totally 
> empty file using the previous sed command with input & output being equal.
>
>   
Are there any shells capable of handling that structure in the way one
would expect?  (i.e., acting on the single file without destroying or
requiring a temporary file to be moved around)

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