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Old 12-21-2015
I question the wisdom of having files of 17GB size, but that's not here or there.
The intention of post #2 was to point out the facts with such a large file size, thus explicitly doing the redirection to temporal file. Further more, an inexperienced sed user might believe in the magic of not needing a temporary file, even when it is happening behind the scene; impression which I did not want to give.
I have not done a strace or find out what happens if sed command with -i fails due to such a large size. Is there the possibility of original file corruption or partial truncation? To avoid that, I proposed the safest route I thought of.
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DB2_FIELD_NAME(3)							 1							 DB2_FIELD_NAME(3)

db2_field_name - Returns the name of the column in the result set

SYNOPSIS
string db2_field_name (resource $stmt, mixed $column) DESCRIPTION
Returns the name of the specified column in the result set. PARAMETERS
o $stmt - Specifies a statement resource containing a result set. o $column - Specifies the column in the result set. This can either be an integer representing the 0-indexed position of the column, or a string containing the name of the column. RETURN VALUES
Returns a string containing the name of the specified column. If the specified column does not exist in the result set, db2_field_name(3) returns FALSE. SEE ALSO
db2_field_display_size(3), db2_field_num(3), db2_field_precision(3), db2_field_scale(3), db2_field_type(3), db2_field_width(3). PHP Documentation Group DB2_FIELD_NAME(3)