set the tmp file for sed??

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2015-09-26 at 15:30 -0600, jd1008 wrote:
> 
> On 09/26/2015 02:39 PM, bruce wrote:
> > Hey.
> > 
> > I know. This is probably really basic/subtle, but 'net searches are
> > coming up empty.
> > 
> > Doing testing of 'sed' it's generating tmp files in the base
> > directory. Is there a way that the 'sed' tmp dir can be set to
> > '/tmp'.
> > 
> > A sample sed cmd would be
> > 
> > sed -i '/foo/cat/g' abc.dat
> > sed -i '/foo/d' abc.dat
> > 
> > thanks..
> One minor error
> 
> sed -i 's/foo/cat/g' abs.dat
> ditto for abs.dat
> 
> Man page says:
> 
>         s/regexp/replacement/

>From "info sed":

   The `s' command can be followed by zero or more of the following FLAGS:

`g' Apply the replacement to _all_ matches to the REGEXP, not just the first.

poc