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You don't need to ask unless /home is mounted noexec. It seems rather absurd to assume a seldom used and rather massive ecosystem of language, libs, framework

You don't need to ask unless /home is mounted noexec. It seems rather absurd to assume a seldom used and rather massive ecosystem of language, libs, framework and package manager are installed, but that it is impossible to upload a copy of gsed to ~/bin. The number of shared hosting environments where you can't run your own code, and you already have node installed is miniscule. And although its getting a bit off-topic at this point, doing replacements directly in the file isn't even a good idea. The standard "move $file to $file.backup, run sed against $file.backup and pipe it into $file" method is not just recommended because it is portable, it also saves your ass when you messed up your search+replace and broke all your files.

protomyth 14y ago
"You don't need to ask unless /home is mounted noexec." You'd be surprised what is restricted in a lot of corps beyond the "approved" software list. It is amazing what big things get approved and what little things don't.
- papsosouid 14y ago
  No I wouldn't, I've dealt with them extensively. I have no idea how that is relevant though. If Enterprositous Corp X needs a way to do replacements, they install one. They would have to install node and a ton of other crap anyways, why do you pretend installing a single trivial binary is beyond hope of possibility, but installing a huge language+framework ecosystem is totally cool?