> If I use sed -i to attempt to operate on a symlink in place, sed breaks > the symlink and creates a new file. I believe it should instead follow the > symlink and edit the target file in place. After all, the man page > says:
No, this is intended behavior. perl -i will work the same; also, not breaking symlinks would be easy (on systems that have readlink...) but it would be much harder to not break *hard* links. Paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
