On 12/08/2009 11:12 AM, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote:
if sed is used to in-place edit a*symlink*  it is replacing
the symlink with a regular file. Thats probably okay (other tools
like perl do it the same way) but it could cause some problems.
For example if people who are not aware of that fact use
it to edit files in /etc/apache2/conf.d or so.

The existence of a --follow-symlinks option should be enough of a clue...

Paolo



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