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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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Subject: Re: Sed howto
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In the last episode (Oct 28), Kvesdn Gbor said:
> I'm looking for a good sed howto that can be useful for contributing
> to ports collection. Replacing text is I'm especially interested in. 
> Besides, could somebody explain me, when we use USE_REINPLACE= YES
> and ${REINPLACE_CMD}, and when we use just ${SED}?

Our sed can only do inplace edits in 4.6 and newer, so on older systems
the textproc/sed_inplace port gets installed and REINPLACE_CMD is set
to that binary.  Use ${REINPLACE_CMD} when you modify a file inplace,
use ${SED} when you convert a "file.in" to a "file".

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	Dan Nelson
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