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Re: sed "in-place" behavior and file permissions
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: sed "in-place" behavior and file permissions |
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Fri, 06 Sep 2013 07:35:36 -0700 |
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James Walker wrote:
> At least update the man page, please!
Could you propose a patch to the source of the manual,
along those lines?
I can see why the current behavior is surprising,
and perhaps even unwisely chosen. We're unlikely to
change it now, though, for backward-compatibility reasons.