On 20-05-2011 17:39:22 +0200, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
> I've looked into sed's internal solutions to no avail, but something
> like -i[SUFFIX] might help, since it gives you a backup file to compare
> with the file that's being streamed.
>
> The idea is to pass the result to
> | diff -u $file $file[SUFFIX]
> to figure out what was changed, and what sed script changed it.
I like your idea a lot.
I had to do a similar thing once in eapify, and back then I came up with
the following hack:
sed -e "<pattern>" "${file}" | diff "${file}" -
followed by the actual sed -i -e ...
This way I didn't need to write an intermediate file.
--
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level
