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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] perl, sed and non-gsed
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:52:43
Message-Id: 20050328185140.118e6509@snowdrop
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] perl, sed and non-gsed by "Diego \\\"Flameeyes\\\" Pettenò"
1 On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:43:52 +0200 "Diego \"Flameeyes\" Pettenò"
2 <flameeyes@×××××××××××××.de> wrote:
3 | On Monday 28 March 2005 19:31, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 | > Erm. No. Supporting -i is a requirement for any sed that is used by
5 | > ebuilds.
6 | I'm not saying -i is not supported, just the order in which the
7 | parameters should be passed is sed -i -e expression file, not sed -e
8 | expression -i file.
9
10 Ya. Well if you're trying to get away with that, saying that $other
11 doesn't support it probably isn't the best way to go. Mention that POSIX
12 requires that all options come before non-options instead and you might
13 get somewhere :)
14
15 --
16 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools)
17 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
18 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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Re: [gentoo-dev] perl, sed and non-gsed Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>