sed -i

-i tells sed to modify the file in place.

-i[SUFFIX], --in-place[=SUFFIX] edit files in place (makes backup if SUFFIX supplied)

sudo sed -i '/#net.ipv4.ip_forward=1/s/^#//g' /etc/sysctl.conf

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gsed -i
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See also

• sed, gsed, -n, -i, Ansible: replace, append, Chef: Editing a file‎‎, lineinfile