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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed over writes my original file (using sed to remove leading spaces) Post 302263399 by nj78 on Monday 1st of December 2008 01:24:15 PM
Old 12-01-2008
You are clobbering the file before the modification.
 

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GFS_UTIMES(3)															     GFS_UTIMES(3)

NAME
gfs_utimes - set file access and modification times SYNOPSIS
#include <gfarm/gfarm.h> char *gfs_utimes (const char * gfarm_url, const struct gfarm_timespec * tsp); DESCRIPTION
gfs_utimes() sets the access and modification times of the file pointed to by the gfarm_url argument to the value of the tsp argument. The tsp argument is an array of gfarm_timespec structures. The first array member represents the access time, and the second member represents the modification time. The gfarm_timespec structure is: struct gfarm_timespec { unsigned int tv_sec; /* seconds */ unsigned int tv_nsec; /* nanoseconds */ }; If the tsp argument is a null pointer, the access and modification times of the file are set to the current time. RETURN VALUES
NULL The function terminated successfully. GFARM_ERR_GFARM_URL_PREFIX_IS_MISSING gfarm_url does not start with the gfarm: prefix. GFARM_ERR_NO_MEMORY Insufficient memory was available. GFARM_ERR_AUTHENTICATION User authentication failed when connecting to gfmd(8). GFARM_ERR_PERMISSION_DENIED gfarm_url points outside your accessible address space. GFARM_ERR_NO_SUCH_OBJECT gfarm_url does not exist. Others An error except the above occurred. The reason is shown by its pointed strings. SEE ALSO
gfs_stat(3) Gfarm 04 December 2003 GFS_UTIMES(3)
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