non-convergent file edit?

[rader]

Assume...

 echo "01Jan70" > f

then is there a way to do

 mv f f.OLD && \
 cat f.OLD | perl -ne "s/\d\d\w\w\w\d\d/`date +%d%h%y`/; print" > f && \
 rm f.OLD

with editfiles??

Just curious.  Using shellcommands is a reasonable solution. 

steve 
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systems & network guy
high energy physics
university of wisconsin