Help with Replacing Strings on Solaris

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I am on a Solaris 8 box that does not support -i option for sed, so I am using the following from a google search on the topic:

# find . -name cancel_submit.cgi | while read file; do
> sed 's/ned.dindo.com\/confluence\/display\/CESDT\/CETS+DocTools>DOC Team/wwwin-dev.dindo.com\/Eng\/CntlSvcs\/InfoFrwk\/GblEngWWW\/Public\/index.html>EDCS Team/g' ${file} > ${file}.new
> mv ${file}.new ${file} 
> done

This works except it messes up file permissions and group:owner.

How can I retain the original information?

Gadolin · Accepted Answer · 2010-09-14 05:38:53Z

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You may use 'cat'.
cat ${file}.new > ${file} && rm ${file}.new

edited Sep 14, 2010 at 5:38

answered Sep 14, 2010 at 5:29

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Kawili-wili Over a year ago

Great! Another good alternative. I actually used this one. Worked like a charm.

Zac Thompson · Accepted Answer · 2010-09-14 05:45:33Z

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cp -p preserves the stuff you want. Personally I would do this (to imitate sed -i.bak):

...
cp -p ${file} ${file}.bak
sed 's/..../g' ${file}.bak > ${file}
...

You could add rm ${file}.bak to the end if desired, in which case you wouldn't technically need the -p in the cp line above. But with the above you can do mv ${file}.bak ${file} to recover if the replacement goes awry.

answered Sep 14, 2010 at 5:45

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