2010/3/12 ????? ???????????? <olga.kryzhanovska at gmail.com>:
> This one, right?
> ? ? ? -i[SUFFIX], --in-place[=SUFFIX]
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ?edit files in place (makes backup if extension supplied)
>
> -i copies the content to a temporary backup file, truncates the
> original (keeping permissions, ACL flags etc) and starts processing
> from backup to original file, right?
>
>
> Which purpose has this option (I can't look at the GPL code without
> getting tainted by the GPL):
> --follow-symlinks
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ?follow symlinks when processing in place

Yes, that's the one.

>
> If you use one sed script over many files then sedcomp will help you
> (precompiles sed script, saving execution time in the processing
> loop).

Good tip!  thanks!

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