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Old 01-22-2008
sed and changing the file itself

hello

I have this:
sed -e "s/install_location=....../g" -e "s/hostname=....../g" -e "s/server_name=....../y" input.txt

it will display on the screen what have changed. however I want to change file input.txt. Any idea other than doing redirection (>)

thx
 

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