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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Explanation for interesting sed behaviour? Post 302355937 by thuldai2 on Thursday 24th of September 2009 06:05:37 AM
Old 09-24-2009
I like to do something like this

Code:
sed 's/phrase/substitute/' ${file} > ${file}.TMP && /bin/mv -f ${file}.TMP ${file}

The '&&' makes the second part (mv -f) only execute when the first part worked fine, thus preventing you from accidentally overwriting the original file.
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

       shtool table [-F|--field-sep sep] [-w|--width width] [-c|--columns cols] [-s|--strip strip] strsepstr...

DESCRIPTION

       This pretty-prints a list of strings as a table.

OPTIONS

       The following command line options are available.

       -F, --field-sep sep
	   Separate columns using sep. Default is ":".

       -w, --width width
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HISTORY

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SEE ALSO

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