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Thanks all for the participation.

I hope I did not make my statements in the way they are the truth, but just did show them as my own preferences(e. g. the statement that "Shell scripting is now...

Maybe the Standards-Part should be separated from the thread? (Last time I requested Thread separation there was a broken thread afterwards in the forum, which might have nothing to do with that, but...

You're right. The exact method is not fully explained in the man-page. There's only a very short sentence about -i.

In the sed info-page however it is explained more in detail.

'-i[SUFFIX]'...

GNU sed has the -c/--copy Option which keeps hard+soft links. But this is not an atomic operation. (the mv-Variant is atomic).

Alternatively sponge is there too. (Not very portable, too ;-) ).
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Hi bakunin,

thanks for the remarks about different aspects of sed -i.



Current GNU sed reapplies permissions and ownership after in-place edit. (Inodenumber is changed of course). I was not...