Re: sed -i turns link into file

[Jonathan Wilson <jw@mailsw.com>]

On Thursday 17 January 2008 10:48:41 Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> I encountered something rather odd and in my eyes disturbing: if I edit
> a symlinked file with an ordinary editor (nano, kate, ...) the editor
> edits the file instead and leaves the symlink intact.


I Tried this on SuSE and it behaves the same. If it's a bug (sure seems odd to 
me) it must be in the upstream sed, not Debian's packages.

	JW



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