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Subject: Re: __FreeBSD_version bump for loss of perl 
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>    perl -pi.hold -e 's/FOO/BAR/g' ${WRKSRC}/a/b/{X,Y}
> is not as easy to do with `ed'.

It's not *that* hard.  10 lines of shell script is preferable to
XX MB of perl bloat.  Especially for this sort of problem.

--lyndon

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