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[Torinthiel]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 02:12:36AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> 
> Torinthiel wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 03:14:38PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> >
> >>Yeah, the option does exist, but for the reason you cited among
> >>others I'm just not comfortable with making on-the-fly changes
> >>without backup.
> >
> >If it's the only change than you have backup. Remote one - CVS.
> 
> True enough. I suppose part of my problem is with on-the-fly changes -
> since I think of them in terms of "sed file > file" (or even "cat file |
> sed > file"), rather than "sed -i file". I'm not sure what behaviour
> would result, but since I've had other programs wind up in an
> endless-until-the-drive-fills-up loop doing things like that, I'm
> somewhat leery of the whole idea.

True enough, I've also had problems with that kind of editing. But if
a program includes a special option to do it I assume it's as safe as it
can be.

> (And, for the little it's worth, I don't like putting more load on the
> CVS server than I need to.)

Generally you don't. It's only in case something really screws up, like
a power failure. How often does that happen during a file modification
that lasts less than a second?

> >Then there's '-i bak' option, which combines the best of both words.
> 
> It wasn't till I looked at the sed man page (for mostly unrelated
> reasons) that I figured out what you probably meant by this - and yes,
> "-i=.bak" or similar would be considerably better than what I'd
> suggested. Guess I've learned a few things today. ^_^

Not that I've ever used it ;). But it's worth mentioning.
Anyway, this is getting highly off-topic.
Torinthiel

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