The version of sed on Solaris cannot actually save the file. So as a work around just type ‘perl -pi -e’ instead of the sed command :
perl -pi -e ’s/who/when/g’ /tmp/afile
Rick Donato is a Network Automation Architect/Evangelist and the founder of Packet Coders.
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