Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:54:22 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: =?utf-8?B?S8O2dmVzZMOhbiBHw6Fib3I=?= <gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sed howto Message-ID: <20051028165422.GA5513@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <4362409D.400@t-hosting.hu> References: <4362409D.400@t-hosting.hu>
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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
dnelson@allantgroup.com
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