On 10.07.2015 19:16, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Armin K. wrote: >> On 10.07.2015 17:01, Nathan Coulson wrote: >>> On 10 July 2015 at 07:13, Milton Ott <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> All apologies lfs-dev, this a great start isn't it. The patch is no >>>> good. I forgot to double check >>>> before sending and its come back to bite me. >> >> Patience is the key. Main developer is from USA, which means you're >> almost a day ahead of him. Having no response doesn't mean it's not >> good, but rather it's not read at the moment. >> >>> >>> Originally chapter 5 was written that way due to older versions of sed >>> not supporting -i (allowing it to work on older hosts). Not sure if >>> this is still a concern or not. >>> >> >> Minimum listed sed version is 4.1.5 and that version supports -i.orig >> just fine. I just downloaded the version and built it to test. Note >> that the requirement is GNU sed, not any other, so the change is fine >> by me. > > The change is fine, but I don't think necessary. One of the objectives if > LFS is to show how commands are used so users can become familiar with them. > You still see the two line format occasionally and we certainly use the -i > form in most places. > > -- Bruce
That's exactly a good reason to use it. There's no example that I've yet seen using such command but there are several ones with renaming the files and utilizing a sed after that. -- Note: My last name is not Krejzi.
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