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Recent content by mgshn
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How to determine if a file is open
Thought I would jump in and explain the confusion about using vi to edit a file and fuser to see if the file being edited is open. The problem is that vi does not keep the file open during the editing session. It creates a copy of the file and uses that for the updates. When you leave vi and... -
sed or vi search and replace of octal codes.
Don't know about the other suggestions but I successfully tested the following: sed 's/\\040/ /g' <infile >newfile Note that the middle of the command is "slash space slash gee- mgshn
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- Forum: Sun: Solaris
