[plug] Extreme text editing

[Bernard Blackham]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 12:32:37AM +1000, Kimberly Shelt wrote:
> Isn't sed supposed to shine in this department ?#
> Line by line and all that ??

Good point. :) It'd still suffer the same perils as the (head
;echo;tail) solution - it still rewrites the entire file (using the
-i option). But the sed one-liner would be:

sed -i -e '1234567cThis is the new world.' bigfile
*make some coffee*

> Kim
> (who rarely uses sed more than to s/borken_bit/less_borken_bit/ :)

People write entire games of snake in sed ... scary stuff :)

Bernard.

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