01-07-2013
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Scott
Only if the closing EOF is indented with a TAB (or nothing at all - it won't work if those are spaces before it).
A note to radoulov's solution (which is nice
![Smilie Smilie](https://www.unix.com/images/smilies/smile.gif)
). Moving a temporary file over an existing file can be dangerous.
Great point Scott!
sed's -i is far more sophisticated (if I recall correctly, it handles even extended
acls).
To the OP: with this manual method you'll need to handle the file permissions/inode changes manually ...
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verify_blkparse
VERIFY_BLKPARSE(1) VERIFY_BLKPARSE(1)
NAME
verify_blkparse - verifies an output file produced by blkparse
SYNOPSIS
verify_blkparse <filename>
DESCRIPTION
Verifies an output file from blkparse. All it does is check if the events in the file are correctly time ordered. If an entry is found that
isn't ordered, it's dumped to stdout.
AUTHORS
blkparse was written by Jens Axboe, Alan D. Brunelle and Nathan Scott. This man page was created from the blktrace documentation by Bas
Zoetekouw.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <linux-btrace@vger.kernel.org>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2006 Jens Axboe, Alan D. Brunelle and Nathan Scott.
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
This manual page was created for Debian by Bas Zoetekouw. It was derived from the documentation provided by the authors and it may be
used, distributed and modified under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2.
On Debian systems, the text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.
SEE ALSO
btrace (8), blktrace (8), blkparse (1), blkrawverify (1), btt (1)
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