From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QR7mn-0000gi-38 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 May 2011 19:06:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9C04F1C065; Mon, 30 May 2011 19:03:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B2341C065 for ; Mon, 30 May 2011 19:03:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A75E480426 for ; Mon, 30 May 2011 20:03:41 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 20:03:40 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale Message-ID: <20110530200340.71239df0@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20110530184647.32494130@karnak.local> References: <20110530184647.32494130@karnak.local> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9cvs24 (GTK+ 2.24.3; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/R9=MVL_/z.RMLTAvFzJi_sT"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: e297787c90f6e8c199806a64cbef928d --Sig_/R9=MVL_/z.RMLTAvFzJi_sT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 >>. =20 >=20 > 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick EASY TO INSTALL =3D Difficult to install, but instruction manual has pictures. --Sig_/R9=MVL_/z.RMLTAvFzJi_sT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk3j6gwACgkQum4al0N1GQPb7QCghYdYAe/iSRPDnq6r/O5+ebZW 2AEAmwWuXcYPBEF9M3EGXhe/xvbDoQ1w =TA3X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/R9=MVL_/z.RMLTAvFzJi_sT--