On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Eric Sunshine wrote: > Akim Demaille wrote: > > How about cp FILE.in FILE and then perform the transformation from > > FILE.in's contents to (>) FILE? > > This will not work correctly on Windows. At best, it will throw an > error because FILE is locked (being read by sed) while the > is trying > to open it for writing. At worst, you will simply lose the contents of > FILE (for the same reason). In my experiments, the latter occurred. Not true. cp FILE.in FILE sed -e 'blah' < FILE.in > FILE does not hold FILE open. The issue that FILE.in is read-only still remains. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen
