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| Hello! On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 03:22:20PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >At 6:17 PM +0000 10/3/05, Christian Weisgerber wrote: >>Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de> wrote: >> > Let me add two comments about this specific feature. The first is >> > that it is very handy for patching third party source code, since >> > it saves the hassle of reverting to ed or having to copy the files >> > first. >>In the ports tree we just use perl -i. >In FreeBSD-land, this feature was added to 'sed' just so we could >remove one dependency on perl. If you do not need perl for anything >else, then it's a rather large package to require just so you can do >'-i' edits. This is OpenBSD and has perl in base, anyway. Kind regards, Hannah. |