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Search and replace?

Search and replace?

Posted Nov 3, 2009 15:11 UTC (Tue) by southey (subscriber, #9466)
Parent article: Courgette meets a dangerous (Red) Bend

Noting that it says 'executable program' (whatever that means), then creating a diff/patch after searching and replacing on some executable shell script must be covered by the patent:
$ sed "s/old/new/g" old > new | diff old new

Probably could cover some of those './configure and make' programs as well.


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