Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 14:13:52 +0200 From: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why does 'sed' delete my input file? Message-ID: <20020531141352.A66831@energyhq.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20020531130029.B28925@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Fri, May 31, 2002 at 01:00:29PM %2B0100 References: <20020531130029.B28925@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 01:00:29PM +0100, j mckitrick wrote:
Hi,
> If I want to replace all occurrences of 'foo' in a file, this is what I
> tried:
>=20
> sed s/foo/bar/g file1 > file1
>=20
> But this deletes (overwrites?) the contents of the file. What did I do
> wrong?
It's not sed that does that. Note that you are redirecting the output
with '>', so the shell truncates file1.
However, there are other ways to do that. sed will soon have a -i option
soon, but in the meantime you could just:
sed -e 's/foo/bar/g' file1 > file1.tmp && mv file1.tmp file1
or
perl -pi -e 's/foo/bar/g' file1
Cheers,
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