On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 15:00 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 10:02 -0400, Chris Murphy wrote: > > cat %gconf.xml | sed s/oldsmtp/newsmtp/g > %gconf.xml > > Dangerous. You're starting two concurrent processes, one reading from a > file and the other writing *to the same file*. Depending on race > conditions, some of the time the shell will truncate the file before the > 'cat' has a chance to read it. ... or use the sed --in-place option (-i, see the man page)
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