On Apr 20 12:24, fergus wrote:
> I'm having a few problems with sed -i (using the current sed v.4.1.5).
>
> Unfortunately they only occur when used in a system() call from within a
> program. That is to say
>
> $ /bin/sed -i 's/expr1/expr2/g' {pathto}/filename
>
> works fine, but
>
> system("/bin/sed -i 's/expr1/expr2/g' {pathto}/filename")
> .. do stuff involving filename ..
>
> invariably results in error messages of the style
>
> /bin/sed: cannot rename {pathto}//sedEfWWjX: Permission denied
I can't reproduce this. I tried with removing TMP, TEMP and TMPDIR
from my environment, but it "just works"(tm). Looks like you have to
debug this a bit more on your own machine.
Corinna
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