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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/19/17 2:20 PM, Greg Silverman (CS)
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<p class="MsoNormal">The generated scripts use this idiom<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">sed_command=”sed –i …”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">where the ellipsis is replaced a follow
symlink option if the file being edited is a symbolic link.
There are some errors when running the generated remediation
script, such as<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">“sed -i “ command not found.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As an alternative, I change the script to say
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">sed_command_params=”sed –I …”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">sed ${command_params}<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This works. It seems more reasonable to me
because we do not want a different command, we want different
parameters to the sed command.</p>
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Seems to work. Would you be willing to make patches for this?<br>
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