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

On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 17:00, John-Mark Gurney <jmg_at_funkthat.com> wrote:
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> How is the program suppose to tell when the extension is "-e", or -e
> is a different option and not the argument to -I?

-i-e is an in-place edit with extension "-e"
-i -e is an in-place edit with no extension