On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > 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 Seems good to me! I would prefix that with rm -f builddir/FILE just to make sure. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen
