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.
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Neil Bothwick
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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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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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