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sed 4.2.2 does not operate on streams when --follow-symlinks is passed
From: |
Luke T . Shumaker |
Subject: |
sed 4.2.2 does not operate on streams when --follow-symlinks is passed |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:50:32 -0500 |
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Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.9 (Gojō) APEL/10.8 Emacs/24.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) |
sed 4.2.2 introduced the change from 4.2.1 that the
`--follow-symlinks` option breaks sed's ability to operate on
streams.
This option is clearly non-applicable in the situation of editing a
stream, but should not break in that situation.
This new behavior is an inconvenience to users who may have created
an alias for sed, as I have:
alias sed='sed --follow-symlinks'
Version information:
$ sed --version
sed (GNU sed) 4.2.2
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by Jay Fenlason, Tom Lord, Ken Pizzini,
and Paolo Bonzini.
GNU sed home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/>.
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>.
E-mail bug reports to: <address@hidden>.
Be sure to include the word ``sed'' somewhere in the ``Subject:'' field.
Problem testcase:
$ type sed
sed is aliased to `sed --follow-symlinks'
$ sed s/foo/bar/ <<<foo
/bin/sed: cannot stat -: No such file or directory
$ /bin/sed --follow-symlinks s/foo/bar/ <<<foo
/bin/sed: cannot stat -: No such file or directory
Work-around 0:
$ /bin/sed s/foo/bar/ <<<foo
bar
Work-around 1:
$ unalias sed
$ sed s/foo/bar/ <<<foo
bar
Happy hacking,
~ Luke Shumaker
- sed 4.2.2 does not operate on streams when --follow-symlinks is passed,
Luke T . Shumaker <=