-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I encountered something rather odd and in my eyes disturbing: if I edit a symlinked file with an ordinary editor (nano, kate, ...) the editor edits the file instead and leaves the symlink intact.
If I 'edit' the same symlink via "sed -i", the symlink gets replaced by the saved file and the linked file is not changed. Is this normal behaviour? Is there a way to tell sed to edit the link's target instead? Thanks! Johannes /---------- Example: 17:45:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/test$ ln -s atest alink 17:45:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/test$ ll total 4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 jw jw 5 2008-01-17 17:45 alink -> atest - -rw-r--r-- 1 jw jw 55 2008-01-17 17:36 atest 17:46:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/test$ sed -i s/test/succes/g alink 17:46:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/test$ ll total 8 - -rw-r--r-- 1 jw jw 57 2008-01-17 17:46 alink - -rw-r--r-- 1 jw jw 55 2008-01-17 17:36 atest -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHj4boC1NzPRl9qEURAks7AJ9tq6ZjYBKUilRyo8h2QvGuAJSQ7wCeOXtA DifbuKyg/E0iqOS16BBLqBU= =Xt2w -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
