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From: Oliver Braun <obraun@informatik.unibw-muenchen.de>
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Subject: bin/39457: sed -i.bak -e '[...]' file fails if file.bak already exists
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>Number:         39457
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       sed -i.bak -e '[...]' file fails if file.bak already exists
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jun 18 01:20:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Oliver Braun
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD nemesis.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #0: Mon Jun 17 11:36:37 CEST 2002 root@nemesis.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NEMESIS_OB i386


>Description:

sed -i.bak -e '[...]' file fails if file.bak already exists.

Regards,
         Olli

>How-To-Repeat:

on -current do:

touch test
touch test.bak
sed -i.bak -e 's|foo|bar|' test

on -stable do:

cd ${PORTSDIR}/textproc/sed_inplace
make install

touch test
touch test.bak
sed_inplace -i.bak -e 's|foo|bar|' test

>Fix:

if   this is the intended behaviour
then please close this PR
else fix source code.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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