Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 18:47:49 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d and /etc/rc.d Message-ID: <20000908184749.C1317@spawn.nectar.com> In-Reply-To: <20000908164715.A59499@mithrandr.moria.org>; from nbm@mithrandr.moria.org on Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 04:47:15PM %2B0200 References: <39B8E865.B77012B@camtech.net.au> <20000908153421.A58134@mithrandr.moria.org> <39B8F928.C9F4339@camtech.net.au> <20000908164715.A59499@mithrandr.moria.org>
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On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 04:47:15PM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > Note the excessive use of "perl -i -pe 's/foo/bar/'" for in-place > substitution. I've asked on at least two occasions for a simple, > easy-to-use, thing to do it without doing a two-liner that copies to > another file, and then replaces the old file with the new file. If it weren't for perl, we'd probably already have `sed -i' :-) -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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