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For the sed example, what you actually want is -i which modifies the given file. AKA sed -i 's/hello/goodby/' dummyfile

• phamilton 10y ago
  That's only in gnu coreutils. BSD coreutils don't support -i
  • cheiVia0 10y ago
    didn't https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sed https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sed http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/sed.1 http://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-current/man1/sed.1 http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?sed++NetBSD-current http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?sed++NetBSD-current
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