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Re: Using the same file as stdin and stdout

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 09:07:38PM +0000, Carl Spalletta wrote:
> The following, of course, doesn't work:
> 
>    sed -e s/foo/bar/g < x > x
> 
> But is there any way to have the same file as input and output using
> any form of shell redirection, but WITHOUT using a temporary file?
> 
> That is just with shell constructs without using, e.g.  the inplace
> option to 'perl'.

Yes, sed -i :)
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