Re: sed feature request

[Eric Heitzman]

I would like to apologize to the bug-gnu-utils folks for mistakenly 
requesting a feature that already exists in the current version of sed.  
The -i switch is already in 4.0.7 as was pointed out by Sephan and others.

My linux box came with sed 3.x which didn't have the -i switch.  I went 
looking for the GNU sed manual, and I found this page:
  http://www.gnu.org/manual/sed/

The "HTML" version of that manual is also for the out of date version, 
and doesn't discuss the -i switch.  I wasn't really aware that there was 
a newer version until some time after I sent in the original feature 
request.

Sorry to waste your time...   :|

Eric



Stepan Kasal wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 06:24:50PM -0400, Karl Berry wrote:
>  
>
> > put a edit-in-place feature into every program (sort being the one
> >    
>
> sed-4.0.x contains this feature.  You can get it from
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sed/sed-4.0.7.tar.gz
> and mirrors.
>
>  
>
> > for f in *; do
> >  sed ... $f >$f.tmp
> >  mv $f.tmp $f
> > done
> >    
>
> I often write such simple loops on my cmd line; so the -i option makes
> little difference for me.
>
> Stepan
>