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Re: sed on binary files
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Ralf Wildenhues |
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Re: sed on binary files |
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Thu, 2 Oct 2008 14:50:24 +0200 |
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* Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 02:46:38PM CEST:
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> I'll add a blurb to the autoconf manual on sed mentioning that it cannot
> be used on binary files (although Posix already says that),
Isn't that obvious? I mean, of all classic unix text-related tools,
only very few operate on non-text files; Posix mentions that with each
one explicitly.
Of course my radar may be seriously skewed without me realizing that.
;-)
Cheers,
Ralf