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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers sed replacement inplace Post 302964370 by gotamp on Thursday 14th of January 2016 02:29:16 AM
Old 01-14-2016
Wrench sed replacement inplace

I need to make permanent changes in the file after find and replace using sed.
for this i am using
Code:
sed -i

However this is not working. says
sed: illegal option -- i


I am working on Sun Solaris
HTML Code:
uname -a
SunOS aspsun14 5.10 Generic_150400-13 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise
any other work around please ?

Last edited by gotamp; 01-14-2016 at 03:30 AM.. Reason: information was not proper
 

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