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mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com> writes:

> On Friday, 9 January 2015 20:58:36 UTC+10, mmphosis  wrote:
>> ...but, doesn't work with gnu/Linux sed. :(
>> 
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5694228/sed-in-place-flag-that-works-both-on-mac-bsd-and-linux
>
> A better(?) way since sed is different across platforms is to use
> something that isn't, in this case, vi in 'ex' mode:
>
> ex source/dl_library.c <<EOF
> s/%I64d/%lld/g
> w
> EOF
>
> (I didn't verify that the substitute command behaved the same under
> vi, but I expect it does)
>
> This will achieve the same result, but be POSIX compliant.
>
> Matt

Or just use perl:

perl -pi.bak -e 's/%I64d/%lld/g' Dc_Library.c

-- since no modern platform that has sed/ed/ex is likely not to have perl.