> I'm using sed on cygwin.
>
> I have a problem with -i option.
>
> ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
> kei@cygwin% cat test
> apple
> kei@cygwin% ls
> test
> kei@cygwin% cat test
> apple
> kei@cygwin% sed -i "s/apple/orange/g" test
> kei@cygwin% cat test
> apple
> kei@cygwin% ls
> sed003980
> test
> kei@cygwin% cat sed003980
> orange
> kei@cygwin% ???
> ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
>
> I have no idea of what's happening.
> The version before this newest version seemed to work fine, but I
> forgot that version number...
>
> Does anybody have the same problem with me?
> And how can I fix this problem?
> Thank you in advance.
>
> [...]
> kei@cygwin% sed -V
> GNU sed version 4.0.1
> ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
Nope. The only difference in software is that I'm using version 4.0.5 .
Perhaps an upgrade would fix your problem. I haven't got the source for sed,
but it might be that it doesn't have write permission to file `test' to it
outputs to sed[pid] instead (silently?). Does the file `test' have write
permissions?
Here's what I tried
[elfyn@webdev]:{708}:% echo apple >test
[elfyn@webdev]:{709}:% cat test
apple
[elfyn@webdev]:{710}:% ls test
test
[elfyn@webdev]:{711}:% ls -al test
-rw-r--r-- 1 elfyn root 6 Feb 15 11:43 test
[elfyn@webdev]:{712}:% cat test
apple
[elfyn@webdev]:{713}:% sed -i 's/apple/orange/' test
[elfyn@webdev]:{714}:% cat test
orange
[elfyn@webdev]:{715}:%
All working, as it should :-)
Regards,
Elfyn McBratney
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.exposure.org.uk
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