Re: sed: preserving permissions for ‘./sedV1DdTm’: Operation not permitted

"'Edward J. Shornock' [email protected] [sed-users]" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.editors.sed.user
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* Tim Chase [email protected] [sed-users] <[email protected]> [31-05-2014 15:11 EEST]:
> On 2014-05-31 10:03, Ooker [email protected] [sed-users] wrote:
> > When I run sed in a command, I gave these weird errors:
> > sed: preserving permissions for ‘./sedV1DdTm’: Operation not
> > permitted
> > 
> > Although sed continues to do what it suppose to do. These errors
> > only 
> > 
> > disappear when I use sudo.
> > 
> > The command I use is normal:
> > sed '/list/d' listt>list
> 
> In addition to the OS/version info that Stewart requests, what are the
> permissions on your working directory? If you have "stat" installed,
> you can do it easily with
> 
> sh$ stat .
> File: `.'
> Size: 69632           Blocks: 144        IO Block: 4096   directory
> Device: 805h/2053d      Inode: 130821      Links: 2000
> Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
> Access: 2010-09-22 03:47:06.000000000 -0500
> Modify: 2014-05-08 07:25:18.541235406 -0500
> Change: 2014-05-08 07:25:18.541235406 -0500
> Birth: -

I'd also be interested in the file system type. Output like 

      preserving permissions for ‘./sedV1DdTm’: Operation not permitted

could be normal on a FAT partition.
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