Is there an invocation of sed
todo in-place editing without backups that works both on Linux and Mac? While the BSD sed
shipped with OS X seems to need sed -i '' …
, the GNU sed
Linux distributions usually come with interprets the quotes as empty input file name (instead of the backup extension), and needs sed -i …
instead.
Is there any command line syntax which works with both flavors, so I can use the same script on both systems?
Best Answer
If you really want to just use
sed -i
the 'easy' way, the following DOES work on both GNU and BSD/Macsed
:Note the lack of space and the dot.
Proof:
Obviously you could then just delete the
.bak
files.