reinplace first occurrence

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Aug 3, 2017, at 09:44, db wrote:
> 
> I checked portfile's man page and peaked at the source, but couldn't figure out yet, why these forms don't work.
> 
> https://stackoverflow.com/a/11458836/2167331
> 
> In the meantime, I worked around it, but I'd still like to know how to do it.

Well the stack overflow answer says non-GNU sed doesn't support the single-command version, and needs a two-command version. reinplace doesn't support executing multiple commands. 

You could run a two-command sed manually (with system, not reinplace). Or maybe you can use awk, or an ed script. 

I can't remember anybody asking for this functionality (replace first occurrence) before, so that's why there isn't an easy way to do it.