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Date:      Mon, 7 Apr 2003 22:37:43 -0500
From:      Chris Costello <chris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Anthony Schneider <anthony@x-anthony.com>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-03:99.freebsd-sa
Message-ID:  <20030408033743.GC706@holly.machined.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030405053907.GA6471@x-anthony.com>
References:  <20030401.204134.48514670.hrs@eos.ocn.ne.jp> <20030405053907.GA6471@x-anthony.com>

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On Saturday, April 05, 2003, Anthony Schneider wrote:
> Y"KNOW, sed accepts filenames as arguments.
> 
> (it also really doesn't need the -e)
> 
> >  % cat /path/to/FreeBSD-SA-XX:XX.txt.asc\
> >    | sed -e 's/FreeBSD-SA-\([0-9]*\):\([0-9]*\)/FreeBSD-SA-19\1:\2/g'

   Even still, you'd get nailed on comp.unix.shell and
comp.unix.admin for this with a UUOC (Useless Use of Cat(1))
award.  If for some reason sed(1) did not take a filename
argument, then

sed EXPR < filename

   is still cleaner than

cat filename | sed EXPR

-- 
Chris Costello                                <chris@FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD Project                           http://www.FreeBSD.org/
TrustedBSD Project                     http://www.TrustedBSD.org/



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