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| author | Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-05-07 23:32:26 +0000 |
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| committer | Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-05-07 23:32:26 +0000 |
| commit | 5d16412db7a1314d1f7b984a365066dbcfb54ce3 (patch) | |
| tree | 218affa9c0831cab1cb3d31d7389c36caa49d159 /usr.bin/sed | |
| parent | 2fa9c646bb56a71d4825a4161db010409d23f921 (diff) | |
| download | src-5d16412db7a1314d1f7b984a365066dbcfb54ce3.tar.gz src-5d16412db7a1314d1f7b984a365066dbcfb54ce3.zip | |
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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/sed')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/sed/main.c | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/sed/sed.1 | 7 |
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/sed/main.c b/usr.bin/sed/main.c index b4c0916dc6fd..812f62e100e1 100644 --- a/usr.bin/sed/main.c +++ b/usr.bin/sed/main.c @@ -320,6 +320,8 @@ mf_fgets(sp, spflag) fname = files->fname; if ((f = fopen(fname, "r")) == NULL) err(1, "%s", fname); + if (inplace != NULL && *inplace == '\0') + unlink(fname); } if ((c = getc(f)) != EOF) { (void)ungetc(c, f); @@ -366,6 +368,8 @@ mf_fgets(sp, spflag) fname = files->fname; if ((f = fopen(fname, "r")) == NULL) err(1, "%s", fname); + if (inplace != NULL && *inplace == '\0') + unlink(fname); } } (void)ungetc(c, f); @@ -427,8 +431,16 @@ inplace_edit(filename) return -1; } - strlcpy(backup, *filename, MAXPATHLEN); - strlcat(backup, inplace, MAXPATHLEN); + if (*inplace == '\0') { + char template[] = "/tmp/sed.XXXXXXXXXX"; + + if (mktemp(template) == NULL) + err(1, "mktemp"); + strlcpy(backup, template, MAXPATHLEN); + } else { + strlcpy(backup, *filename, MAXPATHLEN); + strlcat(backup, inplace, MAXPATHLEN); + } input = open(*filename, O_RDONLY); if (input == -1) diff --git a/usr.bin/sed/sed.1 b/usr.bin/sed/sed.1 index 4005463d2230..e7bd8b252b18 100644 --- a/usr.bin/sed/sed.1 +++ b/usr.bin/sed/sed.1 @@ -102,6 +102,13 @@ The editing commands should each be listed on a separate line. .It Fl i Ar extension Edit files in-place, saving backups with the specified .Ar extension . +If a zero-length +.Ar extension +is given, no backup will be saved. +It is not recommended to give a zero-length +.Ar extension +when in-place editing files, as you risk corruption or partial content +in situations where disk space is exhausted, etc. .It Fl n By default, each line of input is echoed to the standard output after all of the commands have been applied to it. |