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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 20:03:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110530200340.71239df0@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110530184647.32494130@karnak.local>

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On Mon, 30 May 2011 18:46:47 +0100, David W Noon wrote:

> >Setting noclobber in /etc/profile.d/*shopts.sh avoids that particular
> >problem, as well was the one of accidentally nuking a file when you
> >meant to add to it with >>.  
> 
> Setting noclobber is fine for not obliterating the current contents of
> the file, but it does not help where the current contents need to be
> updated.  That is why I *always* use a text editor to modify
> configuration files.

True, sed is a good choice for that.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

EASY TO INSTALL = Difficult to install, but instruction manual has
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-30 19:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2011-05-30 17:46       ` [gentoo-user] setting locale David W Noon
2011-05-30 19:03         ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2011-05-30 20:34         ` Nils Larsson
2011-05-31 11:19           ` David Relson
2011-05-31 15:44             ` William Hubbs
2011-05-31 20:31               ` Mick
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     [not found] ` <gY0ff-3Pz-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2011-05-30 14:43   ` David W Noon
2011-05-30 15:55     ` Neil Bothwick
2011-05-30 17:40     ` Florian Philipp
2011-05-30 18:23       ` Dale
2011-05-31  0:58     ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-05-31  2:11       ` daid kahl
2011-05-30  1:26 Allan Gottlieb
2011-05-30  2:07 ` Nils Larsson
2011-05-30 14:14   ` Allan Gottlieb

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