[SOLVED] Delete range word to word with sed when all you have is one line

ghostdog74 · 09-02-2010, 01:41 AM

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Originally Posted by subby80

Can this be sovled by just the same same way as sed an infile replacement? pipe it to the the same file gives me a 0 bytes file.

awk doesn't have "inplace". Just use temp file. What's wrong ? the sed's inplace function also creates a temp file in the background anyway.

subby80 · 09-02-2010, 05:04 AM

Hi All,

I hava solved mine problem. I just used the command
[CODE] mv -f [/CODE} to copy back the file.

Simple and it works