Re: sed --in-place bug (updates mtime of file even if no changes are made)

[John Cowan]

Bob Proulx scripsit:

> BTW...  Whenever I need to do something like this I always grep first
> and edit only if the grep tells me that I need to do something.  That
> way the file isn't modified if there isn't any change to it.
> 
>   if grep -q address@hidden somefile; then
>     sed --in-place 's/address@hidden/address@hidden/'
>   fi

Or, more efficiently:

grep -r -q address@hidden /the/root/place | xargs sed --in-place 
s/address@hidden/address@hidden/

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