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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/doc/handbook porting.sgml ports.sgml 
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes:
>> I'm guessing sed, I thought Jordan had a disdain dislike for perl.  :-)
>
>sed, definitely.  I mean, who needs perl when you've already got
>sed, sh and awk? :-)

Perl is 8 bit clean and can edit binary data. 

$ wc /kernel
    2379   24484  808608 /kernel
$ perl -npe 's,/sbin/,/SBIN/,g' /kernel | wc
    2379   24484  808608 /kernel
$ sed 's,/sbin/,/SBIN/,g' /kernel | wc
      67     753   29419

q.e.d.