Re: [Gnu-arch-users] new version hook script examples

[Andrew Suffield]

On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 10:13:30AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-09-26 at 03:47, Stig Brautaset wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 12:26:54PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > > sed -e "s/$VERSION_SED_STRING/$RELEASE_DATE/" D.java > D.java
> > 
> > I'm surprised if this works as you (seem to) expect. I worry that the
> > redirection will nuke the content of the file before it is opened by
> > sed. Either use (relatively) recent gnu sed with the -i flag or
> > something like this:
> > 
> > sed -e "s/$VERSION_SED_STRING/$RELEASE_DATE/" D.java > ,D.java && \
> >   mv ,D.java D.java
> 
> I was thinking that too you know ... but empirically, it works,
> so I never bothered adding the redirection.

It should never work. Something's wrong if it does.

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