-i.bak (no space) to keep a backup of the original in case you need to revert the changes.
Kevin On Sep 13, 2011 10:00 PM, "Dazed_75" <[email protected]> wrote: > How do people test sed replacements on something consequential? I thought I > remembered sed having an option to just report what changes it WOULD HAVE > made without actually making the changes. But I can't find anything like > that. > > Best I can think of is to make a test directory [hierarchy], copy your files > into it, run the sed command and then look at all the files for intended and > unintended changes (or diff them from the originals). That would seem to > suck! > > -- > Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry > > The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, > that I wish it always to be kept alive. > - Thomas Jefferson
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