On 13/04/2012, Connor Lane Smith <c...@lubutu.com> wrote: > I wonder whether a situ-like could be used to produce a diff of the > original file, rather than a complete second copy. Programs like sed > don't generally make that many changes, so if we were to connect situ > to the file and the cmd's stdout we could compute the diff and then > patch the original file once cmd exits 0. If someone could get that > working it would be pretty sweet.
I'm not sure why — this method seems ultimately functionally equivalent to mine. Perhaps I fail to ken your logic here. Cheers, strake