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Note that “things like this” can sometimes be done just using sed: % sed -i -e "s/root/toor/" -e "/joey/d" /etc/passwd

• phamilton 10y ago
  That's platform dependent. BSD sed doesn't support -i
  • _delirium 10y ago
    I don't think that's true anymore, though it was historically. The sed currently shipped with both FreeBSD and OpenBSD supports -i, at least.
  • electrum 10y ago
    You can use Perl in sed mode via "perl -pe" as a more portable replacement for sed.
• kowdermeister 10y ago
  what should this do?