Good, trying to answer in a bit more depth, after doing some more testing.
Is it safe to assume that all Wine installations will include sed.exe?
No, Wine itself doesn't know sed, sed is a Linux/Unix command but it's not accessible through the wine console.
If so, can I just use normal sed commands instead of using the version of sed.exe that I provide?
See above: no.
Or maybe the issue is how Wine handles the commands; maybe by echoing the results into a text file, it's actually skipping right to the echo instead of doing its normal task first?
Actually, Wine should handle the native commands like Windows.
If you're willing to play around with the sed situation and see if you can come up with any solutions/workarounds I'd greatly appreciate it.
I will try to help as much as I can, however, last time I played with batch is a little while ago, And I never really cared about batch on Wine. So I am far from being an expert on either of these, but I try my best.
I am using batch files for those, so if we're lucky, we can just run different batch files that use different commands using the built-in version of sed.exe
That's about the same idea, I had in mind.
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Anyway, here is what I have got so far:
I will keep Tandi as a test-case, so the script in question is
Code:
sed.exe s/"TANDI_SEX_ENABLED :=0"/"TANDI_SEX_ENABLED :=1"/ VAULT13.GAM > globalvars.tmp
cmd.exe /c copy globalvars.tmp VAULT13.GAM /Y
echo TANDI_SEX_ENABLED = 1 >> ..\DATA\FIXT\install.log
(short: sed, copy, echo) as taken from
https://github.com/Sduibek/fixtsrc/blob/master/Batchfiles/Components/TANDI_SEX_ENABLED.bat. As a result of the script I get an unchanged VAULT13.GAM and a changed install.log. So, I would assume that the script is executed, since the log file is changed. It also indicates that - obviously - the echo part is working. The culprit can be either sed or copy.
Here is what I found out so far using this
www.pement.org/sed/gsed407x.zip version of sed.exe copied to "c:/GOG Games/Fallout/Fallout Fixt/DATA/DATA" (so everything is in the same directory):
1. I ran sed -i "s/TANDI_SEX_ENABLED :=0/TANDI_SEX_ENABLED :=1/" VAULT13.GAM (that's the code I would use with the Linux sed command in a linux command line) on the wine command line => works
2. I created a batch file containing the above code and ran it from the wine command line => works
3. Next I tried a code similar to yours
Code:
sed s/"TANDI_SEX_ENABLED :=0"/"TANDI_SEX_ENABLED :=1"/ VAULT13.GAM > test1.tmp
cmd.exe /c copy test1.tmp test2.tmp /Y
and => works , this is interesting cause we can exclude the copy command as the culprit, it's also no problem to overwrite an existing test2.tmp. The odd thing is, if I remove sed.exe from that directory (which should break the scripts function completely), I get an empty test1.tmp and an empty test2.tmp, so in your code VAULT13.GAM would be empty. The only way to leave VAULT13.GAM unchanged is to cause a missing test1.tmp, only if test1.tmp does not exist, the copy command also breaks.
Now the only thing left is the sed command, problem is that, the way I implemented this version of sed in the test setup, it also works, so it might either be the way you implemented it or the version you used... or something completely different.
I'll check.
Because I can rewrite the batches and whatnot but don't have a Wine setup to test on.
