FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-03:99.freebsd-sa

[Chris Costello]

On Saturday, April 05, 2003, Anthony Schneider wrote:
> Y"KNOW, sed accepts filenames as arguments.
> 
> (it also really doesn't need the -e)
> 
> >  % cat /path/to/FreeBSD-SA-XX:XX.txt.asc\
> >    | sed -e 's/FreeBSD-SA-\([0-9]*\):\([0-9]*\)/FreeBSD-SA-19\1:\2/g'

   Even still, you'd get nailed on comp.unix.shell and
comp.unix.admin for this with a UUOC (Useless Use of Cat(1))
award.  If for some reason sed(1) did not take a filename
argument, then

sed EXPR < filename

   is still cleaner than

cat filename | sed EXPR

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Chris Costello                                <chris at FreeBSD.org>
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