Hi, On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 19:14:00 +0100, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Akim Demaille wrote: ... > > chmod +w :) > > Which will fail if the current user does not have the right to update > the file (e.g. owned by another user ID). This may seem unusual, but > it can be expected for a read-only source tree, or if the source tree > is extracted by another user. This 'read-only another user ID' applies to FILE.in but not to FILE - FILE must be writable by our (>). Is it OK this way? cp srcdir/FILE.in builddir/FILE chmod +w builddir/FILE sed ... <srcdir/FILE.in >builddir/FILE Regards, Lace
