Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] eutils.eclass: Add awk wrapper - eawk - edit file in place

[Amadeusz Żołnowski]

Göktürk Yüksek <gokturk@g.o> writes:
>> +	cat "${f}" >"${tmpf}" || return 1
> Why shell redirection with cat instead of cp? both are in coreutils.

I thought cp could overwrite file mode of already existing tmp file, but
actually it doesn't, so cp can be here as well. Is there actual benefit
of using cp here?

> Also, wouldn't the absence of 'die' cause silent breakages?

I want to caller decide whether die or not and what error messge to
give.

Cheers,

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Amadeusz Żołnowski