Looking for quick way of editing a text file

[Dave Mitchell]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 11:06:02AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> Bsed is a wrapper for sed. It takes pretty well the same arguments as sed,
> but edits files in place. I frequently use it for batch edits; it's very
> handy. Example:
> 
> 	bsed '4s/that/that/' filename.txt
> 
> Replace "this" with "that" on line 4. It essentially does all the redirection
> of the first sed with error handling, temp files and such.

Note that perl can do a similar edit-in-place, eg

    perl -ipe 's/this/that/' *.txt

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