sed -i symlink behavior...

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Thu Sep 3 14:07:32 UTC 2009


On 09/02/2009 11:39 AM, Jerry James wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Warren Togami<wtogami at redhat.com>  wrote:
>> What is the correct behavior?  Is this a bug that it changed?
>
> Read up on the --follow-symlinks option to sed.

This is a new option it seems, meaning I can't rely on sed -i at all 
anymore.  I'm rather displeased that a core utility fundamentally 
changed its own behavior.

Warren




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