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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] perl, sed and non-gsed
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 17:04:06
Message-Id: 20050407180254.43fcc539@snowdrop
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] perl, sed and non-gsed by Lina Pezzella
1 On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 12:58:13 -0400 Lina Pezzella <j4rg0n@g.o>
2 wrote:
3 | On Apr 7, 2005, at 8:39 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 | > OSX sed does not do -i at all. Read up on the original "why OSX
5 | > cannot PROVIDE sed-4" discussion.
6 |
7 | Good! I'm not going insane! I KNEW it didn't used to do "-i". It
8 | definitely does now though. Interestingly, it creates a $file-e backup
9 | by default when you try a "sed -i -e".
10
11 -i -e or -ie? -ie to sed is wrong and does slightly strange stuff with
12 GNU sed too.
13
14 --
15 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools)
16 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
17 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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Re: [gentoo-dev] perl, sed and non-gsed Lina Pezzella <j4rg0n@g.o>