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

[Larry Sica]

On Monday, April 7, 2003, at 11:37 PM, Chris Costello wrote:

> 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
>

but cat looks cooler..the string is longer and therefore means you are 
l33t ;)


--Larry