12-26-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Franklin52
It's not only the $i in sed, your approach is wrong. You're deleting a section of g_scripts, redirect the output to g_scripts2 and overwrite g_scripts with g_scripts2.
Regards
The Part that I have said I think its right and Franklin52 you are right that OP's approach is dangerous unless the files are of small size.
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