[ale] sed

[jkinney at localnetsolutions.com (James P. Kinney III)]

On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 22:43 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 22:39 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > You need to do this:
> > 
> > sed -i -e 's/abc/xyz/g' <file >file
> 
> Actually, to be perfectly clear (since I just cut+pasted your cmdline)
> you need to do only this:
> 
> sed -i -e 's/abx/xyz/g' file   (no redirects)

Yes! It was the redirects that broke it.

It makes sense that the operation is supposed to work on a single file
so redirects should produce spurious results.

I have clearly demonstrated the spurious effects of using redirects on
an in-place edit with sed.

Nice to know I have things I can do :)
> 
> -Jim P.
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