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Mar 16, 2020 at 14:16 comment added Itération 122442 What if I want to replace abc with a variable ? Using '$ s/$/$1/' prints $1
Dec 25, 2017 at 8:56 comment added RomanPerekhrest @roaima, night think -> might think ...
Dec 25, 2017 at 8:51 comment added Chris Davies I thought you would have been, but i was concerned that with your emphasis of inplace the OP night think it could be used to avoid double disk space use, eg with a large file.
Dec 25, 2017 at 6:38 comment added RomanPerekhrest @roaima, I'm aware about sed changing inode number.
Dec 25, 2017 at 0:47 comment added Chris Davies Note that "in place" doesn't really mean in place. It means "write the edited content to a temporary named file alongside the existing file and then replace it". You can prove this by looking at the inodes with date >file; ls -i file; sed -i 's/201/ZZZ/' file; ls -i file
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