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Joan; do you know any unixes that have the "overwrite" command that you have so kindly referred us to in this 30 year old work? Furthermore, even use of "overwrite"...

Probably because -i works nicely for multiple files. Thankfully there has been progress since the AT&T days. Sam On Fri, 11 Jun 2021, 18:09 Dwight Spencer, ***@***.***> wrote: > This...

It's the modern authoritarian way, justifying itself with the days when there was no choice. "Must stop people using features that I don't know how to use" And so missing...

This repeated discussion, the usual mistakes, the file races, repeated all over the world (not only here) is why in-place option is needed and why it is futile to argue...

After nearly 10 years of jq maintainers arguing against in-place editing on the grounds that there are difficult and obscure ways around that delightful limitation, we now also have _jaq_,...

The chroot jail is stopped when chroot is called on a relative directory (usually one opened and saved before chroot) and the chroot is set to another alternative absolute path...