On 6/5/07, Marc Espie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 11:45:27PM +0200, Almir Karic wrote:
> >I don't see any -i option documented in the sed manpage.
>
> -i on some seds (gsed, ssed, FBSD sed, maybe others) means ''in
> place'' edit, that feature can be reimplemented with ''sed '....' file
> >new_file; mv -g new_file file'' (it also makes sure it generates
> safe temp file, so doesn't overwrite any file accidentally). but it
> doesn't exists in OBSD sed, so his answer was 'wrong'.

What is mv -g ? doesn't seem to be any standard option I know about ?



me feels like an idiot :/, i meant mv -f and not mv -g :/
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almir

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