Re: inplace - s shell script for you

[Jim Meyering]

Victor Porton <address@hidden> wrote:
> I think you should include this my script in GNU Core Utilities or an other
> GNU package. Don't allow it to be lost as it is a very handy thing.
...
>     echo "Performs inplace editing of a file."
...
>     echo 'Example: inplace -v file.txt "sed -e s/John/Paul/g \$IN > \$OUT"'

Thanks, but I think Perl is just fine for this sort of task:

  perl -pi.bak -e s/John/Paul/g file.txt