how to use sed

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:58:52AM -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> Using sed (clunky):
> 
> [thomas.cameron at mail ~]$ cat foo
> #!/usr/bonsaitools/bin/perl
> [thomas.cameron at mail ~]$ sed "s/\/bonsaitools//" foo
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> [thomas.cameron at mail ~]$ sed "s/\/bonsaitools//" foo > zzz
> [thomas.cameron at mail ~]$ mv zzz foo
> [thomas.cameron at mail ~]$ cat foo
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> Using perl (better):
> 
> [thomas.cameron at mail ~]$ cat foo
> #!/usr/bonsaitools/bin/perl
> [thomas.cameron at mail ~]$ perl -pi -e 's/\/bonsaitools//' foo
> [thomas.cameron at mail ~]$ cat foo
> #!/usr/bin/perl

Or using sed (better):

sed -ie s,/bonsaitools,, foo

	Jakub