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