On 2008-01-18 02:54:12 +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote:
> I don't think it's a bug, but a feature.
It's at least a documentation bug. The sed(1) man page says:
-i[SUFFIX], --in-place[=SUFFIX]
edit files in place (makes backup if extension supplied)
I'd say that if it's "in place", the symbolic link should be preserved
just like with "echo foo > file". But this is rather ambiguous.
Note that perl has the same behavior as sed, but its man page is
explicit about what is done:
-i[extension]
specifies that files processed by the "<>" construct are to be
edited in-place. It does this by renaming the input file, opening
the output file by the original name, and selecting that output
file as the default for print() statements. [...]
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