On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 13:45 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote:
> William L. Thomson Jr. wrote:
> 
> > Now I know some will scream, puke, throw up in their mouth, and so on.
> > But seems like sed should have an OPTIONAL argument or etc to tell sed
> > to either fail if it can't make the change anywhere. And/or keep/output
> > a count of how many things were modified.
> 
> you could use the w flag to the s command.

Nice I will have to play around with that, but surely could make a test
that would work to confirm sed did it's job.

Down with patches, up with sed :)

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William L. Thomson Jr.
Gentoo/Java