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Jakub Jelinek
jakub at redhat.com
Fri Sep 3 19:18:31 UTC 2004
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 02:34:40PM -0400, Elliot Lee wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>
> > The perl code present now, replaces some very ugly sed code which
> > used temporary files. I see no compelling technical reason to
> > not use perl.
>
> It's big and causes dependency loops, and it doesn't sound necessary in
> this case. ('perl -pi' uses temporary files too, it just hides them.)
>
> The script does look a little nicer with perl, but pretty isn't enough. :\
Furthermore you can
sed -i -e 's/foo/bar/' baz
too.
Jakub
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