Can you copy the file to /tmp and run it there?<br>Eric Cope<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Dazed_75 <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:lthielster@gmail.com">lthielster@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">How do people test sed replacements on something consequential?  I thought I remembered sed having an option to just report what changes it WOULD HAVE made without actually making the changes.  But I can&#39;t find anything like that.<br>


<br>Best I can think of is to make a test directory [hierarchy], copy your files into it, run the sed command and then look at all the files for intended and unintended changes (or diff them from the originals).  That would seem to suck!<br clear="all">

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