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Reply-To: "Elfyn McBratney" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: "Elfyn McBratney" <elfyn-cygwin AT exposure DOT org DOT uk>
To: "cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>, "Kei Tsuji" <e091 AT dr DOT com>
References: <20030215 DOT 203238 DOT 01365686 DOT kei AT comrade DOT co DOT jp>
Subject: Re: sed problem
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 11:46:09 -0000
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> I'm using sed on cygwin.
>
> I have a problem with -i option.
>
> ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
> kei AT cygwin% cat test
> apple
> kei AT cygwin% ls
> test
> kei AT cygwin% cat test
> apple
> kei AT cygwin% sed -i "s/apple/orange/g" test
> kei AT cygwin% cat test
> apple
> kei AT cygwin% ls
> sed003980
> test
> kei AT cygwin% cat sed003980
> orange
> kei AT cygwin% ???
> ----- ----- ----- ----- -----
>
> I have no idea of what's happening.
> The version before this newest version seemed to work fine, but I
> forgot that version number...
>
> Does anybody have the same problem with me?
> And how can I fix this problem?
> Thank you in advance.
>
> [...]
> kei AT cygwin% sed -V
> GNU sed version 4.0.1
> ----- ----- ----- ----- -----


Nope. The only difference in software is that I'm using version 4.0.5 .
Perhaps an upgrade would fix your problem. I haven't got the source for sed,
but it might be that it doesn't have write permission to file `test' to it
outputs to sed[pid] instead (silently?). Does the file `test' have write
permissions?

Here's what I tried

[elfyn AT webdev]:{708}:% echo apple >test
[elfyn AT webdev]:{709}:% cat test
apple
[elfyn AT webdev]:{710}:% ls test
test
[elfyn AT webdev]:{711}:% ls -al test
-rw-r--r--    1 elfyn    root            6 Feb 15 11:43 test
[elfyn AT webdev]:{712}:% cat test
apple
[elfyn AT webdev]:{713}:% sed -i 's/apple/orange/' test
[elfyn AT webdev]:{714}:% cat test
orange
[elfyn AT webdev]:{715}:%

All working, as it should :-)


Regards,

Elfyn McBratney
elfyn AT exposure DOT org DOT uk
www.exposure.org.uk



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