Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 23:00:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Braun <obraun@informatik.unibw-muenchen.de> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/39599: sed -i -e '[...]' file saves backup file with extension -e Message-ID: <20020620210026.DBB72263@unsane.de>
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>Number: 39599
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: sed -i -e '[...]' file saves backup file with extension -e
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu Jun 20 14:10:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Oliver Braun
>Release: FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD galore.unsane.de 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #0: Sun Jun 16 12:43:32 CEST 2002 root@galore.unsane.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GALORE_OB i386
>Description:
If sed(1) is called with -i flag without an extension the following characters
will be used as extension. man sed says: If a zero-length extension is given,
no backup will be saved.
Regards,
Olli
>How-To-Repeat:
use sed on -current or sed_inplace on -stable.
touch test
sed -i -e 's/foo/bar/' test
ls
>Fix:
N/A
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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