Re: Which checks should we mandate for source operations in shell scripts
On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 22:01:41 +0100, Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
wrote:
>On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 at 21:49:29 +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
>> It has (finally, and to late) occurred to me that
>>
>> |# back up /etc/default/foo
>> |cp /etc/default/foo ~/foo
>> |(try something in /etc/default)
>> |sudo mv ~/foo /etc/default/foo
>>
>
>For your use-case above, I'd suggest sudoedit(8), which copies the file
>to be edited into /var/tmp, runs your $EDITOR as you, and if the file
>was modified by the time your editor exits, copies it back.
That doesn't help here. One needs to do the backup with elevated
privileges.
Greetings
Marc
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