I seem to be having problem with the -i flag in sed 4.0.1 in the latest cygwin release. The docs state -i places output in a tmp file and renames the tmp to the original when finished. It appears the rename is not happening for me:
22 OSAKA:$ mkdir /c/temp/sed 23 OSAKA:$ cd cd /c/temp/sed 25 OSAKA:sed$ echo "hi" > hi 26 OSAKA:sed$ sed -i 's/hi/there/' hi 27 OSAKA:sed$ ls hi sed000188 28 OSAKA:sed$ cat hi hi 30 OSAKA:sed$ cat sed000188 there 31 OSAKA:sed$ sed 's/hi/there/' -i hi 32 OSAKA:sed$ ls hi sed000188 sed003016 33 OSAKA:sed$ cat sed003016 there 34 OSAKA:sed$ sed --version GNU sed version 4.0.1 Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, to the extent permitted by law. Or am I misunderstanding the proper use of the option? A quick google search for "gnu sed 4.0.1 -i" revealed no obvious references. The news file from 4.0.5 (the most recent on ftp.gnu.org) doesn't mention the problem or a fix either. Thanks, -- Robert Mecklenburg -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/