Re: Replacing sed for zsh portability

[Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> I've had to switch to Perl for a simple replacement just because
> in-place editing with sed isn't supported everywhere, and when it
> is supported, it doesn't behave in the same way on every machine.

If it is in-place editing you want, you can always use ed.

You need to use a here-document for the replacement command but it works
well.

Oliver


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