Re: sed tee, “Search, replace, and commit back.”

Earlier, I described a way to replace all occurrences of a particular pattern with another in a file and write the change(s) back into that file. BBBart on #linuxpakistan on irc.freenode.net suggested another way of doing it that does not involve calling another process. It uses the “-i” switch to sed(1), something I did not [...]