On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 06:10:21AM +0100, Bret Lambert wrote:
| On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:45 PM, William Boshuck <bos...@math.mcgill.ca>
wrote:
| > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 01:18:41PM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote:
| >
| >> OpenBSD's form of sed requires you to output to a new file and
| >> mv that back to original.
| >
| > .. or one could use ed, or perl, to change a file in place.
|
| What happens if ed, or perl, corrupts a system file in place?
The same thing that happens when sed creates a corrupt temporary file
that is then used to replace its input: brokenness.
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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