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Hi team,

I started facing issues when using sed cha= nging a file in place with the following command

sed -i cmd file
=
even though I have the necessary=C2=A0permissions to access the file wi= th my script, sed returns
the following error

sed: couldn't open temporary file ./sed7hc859: P=
ermission denied
And it would then create a temporary file ./sed7hc859.=C2=A0 --000000000000116172060923f209--