Re: [gentoo-dev] sed "" file| cat > file

[Daniel Robbins]

On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 09:09, Chris Houser wrote:

> dosed is currently written to only work on files in ${D}, and the sed
> script defaults to deleting all occurances of ${D} in the named files.
> This makes it ideal for "fixing" paths in text files during the ebuild
> 'install' phase, but useless for patching sources during the 'unpack'
> phase.
>
> Not that you would know this from reading the dosed internal
> documentation, since there isn't any. :-/
>
> Anyway, perhaps someone should update dosed or writing something similar
> for use during 'unpack'.  Until then, what I generally do is:
>
>     t=Makefile
>     cp $t $t.orig
>     sed 's/foo/bar/' $t.orig > $t

Dosed is an achim addition, and not to harp on it but the name always
confused me since I was hoping to have a "generic" dosed command for
uses as you described above.  Ideally, I'd like to add one in the
future, and then rename dosed so it has a better and more
self-documenting name.  Maybe something like "pathstrip".

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins                                  <drobbins@g.o>
Chief Architect/President                       http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.