On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 04:17:01PM -0400, Lee wrote: > Just out of curiosity, > sed 's/foo/bar/g' file > tmpfile && sync && mv tmpfile file > seems to be the 'more correct' version of > sed 's/foo/bar/g' file > tmpfile && mv tmpfile file > > Do you ever take it that far or is the "slight risk of data loss in > case of a system crash / power loss" so slight that you don't bother?
That particular edit was made anonymously. https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls?action=diff&rev1=429&rev2=430 I'll admit I do not normally write scripts with that in mind. Shell scripting is *hard*.
