permission denied when sed in place edit in mingw

Question

I\'m using mingw.

  $ sed -i \"s/a/b/\" test.txt
  sed: preserving permissions for `./sed003480\': Permission denied

I can touch/rm files in cu

Answer 1

On Windows 10 WSL i got similar issue. The issue was caused by VS code being open and apparently using the file. Closing VS code solved my issue.