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Attn Ufiecle: Unix/Linux shell scripting (sed)	by leonidus	2007-04-20 02:10:35
I have a configuration file I want to edit from a script. Specifically uncomment a certain line. The sed syntax is straight forward. I am using: `sed "s/#something/something/" config_file` That gives me the correct result on stdout. The question is is there some easy/standard way to redirect the output to the file again? I already tried the normal shell output redirection, but that left me with an empty file afterwards. I could go with a temporary result file that will be copied over the original file, but I am of the impression, that there should be some better way to do this.
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my proceeding in that case	by c3po	2007-04-20 02:25:05
Yes. That's the procedure with an intermediate ...	by leonidus	2007-04-20 02:32:22
jep, the backup is fine in some cases :o)	by c3po	2007-04-20 02:56:24
Never mind. Found something.	by leonidus	2007-04-20 02:30:00
gnu sed has an in-place option, -i ...	by livingbread	2007-04-20 04:00:54
Oh. Thank you. (n/t)	by leonidus	2007-04-20 04:27:30

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