[PLUG] sed question

["Jason Wertz" <JWERTZ@dcccnet.dccc.edu>]

I'm trying to replace some text in a bunch of docs using sed...when I do this all is fine:

$ sed s/class=\"bodytext\"//g computing.php > newfilename.php

but if I sed the file and don't change the name I get an empty file, all the contents get wiped out and the size is shown as 0 bytes:

$ sed s/class=\"bodytext\"//g computing.php > computing.php

am I missing a command line arg or is my use of the command wrong?

I'm using GNU sed version 3.02 on a RedHat 6.2 based distro.

Thanks

Jason Wertz
Senior Technology Specialist / WebMaster
Delaware County Community College





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