Re: Use m4 to change a file in-place

[Jack J. Woehr]

Peng Yu wrote:
> Hi, sed has an option `--in-place` to allow the change to a file
> in-place. But I don't find a similar option in m4. Does anybody know
> there is a similar option that I can use for in-place modification of
> a file? Thanks.
No, but you can use the Linux mktemp command and pipe to the temp file then 
copy it back.

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