Wouldn't it be EACCES?

I suspect it is the real Ruth. The only explanation, is that she wanted to be in a movie

You mean Rhea Perlman?!

The real Ruth died over 20 years ago, fwiw

Change the ';' to a '+' for even more efficiency (no need to fork+exec a sed process per file, sed can take multiple files)

That'll give you an empty file 🙂

Those kind of pickup lines only work at the foo bar