From: William James <w_a_x_man@...>
Date: 2007-08-30T03:10:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Conducting Regular Expressions on a text file

On Aug 27, 8:53 pm, "Logan Capaldo" <logancapa...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Incidentily ruby has a shortcut for doing this:
>
> ruby -inp -e 'gsub!(/placeholder/, "word")' /folder/template.txt
>
> To handle those really big files where you simply cannot afford to
> have two copies simultaneously,

I think that Ruby makes a temporary copy of the file.