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

From: Ed Maste <emaste_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2021 17:08:27 -0500
On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 17:00, John-Mark Gurney <jmg_at_funkthat.com> wrote:
>
> 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
Received on Mon Mar 08 2021 - 21:08:56 UTC

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