Redirect output from sed 's/c/d/' myFile to myFile

Question

I am using sed in a script to do a replace and I want to have the replaced file overwrite the file. Normally I think that you would use this:

% sed -i \'s/c         


        

Answer 1

You can use sponge from the moreutils.

sed "s/cat/dog/" manipulate | sponge manipulate