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bug#39999: BSD sed vs Gnu sed
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Greg Troxel |
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bug#39999: BSD sed vs Gnu sed |
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Date: |
Wed, 29 Apr 2020 20:04:19 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (berkeley-unix) |
"W. Lincoln Harvey" via "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous
Extension Language" <address@hidden> writes:
> backup file, BSD sed’s -i option requires a zero-length string as a
> mandatory argument, while Gnu sed’s -i option does not take any
> argument.
In cases like this, it is good to read the POSIX specs.
However, you will find that -i is not specified at all.
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/sed.html