Re: Rationalizing sed -i/-I (in-place editing) argument handling

From: Ed Maste <emaste_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2021 16:41:29 -0500
On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 15:55, Ian Lepore <ian_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> I also hate the idea of requiring no space between -I and its related
> value.  That seems like a huge POLA violation compared to how virtually
> every other command's options and arguments work.

On the other hand, -i.ext with no space is compatible with FreeBSD
today and is portable to OpenBSD, NetBSD, macOS, and GNU. -i .ext
works only with FreeBSD and macOS.
Received on Mon Mar 08 2021 - 20:41:59 UTC

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