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bug#39999: sed -i non-POSIX
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Greg Troxel |
Subject: |
bug#39999: sed -i non-POSIX |
Date: |
Fri, 01 May 2020 10:37:43 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (berkeley-unix) |
wlharvey4--- via "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension
Language" <address@hidden> writes:
> Greg,
>
> Good point. The BSD sed man page says:
>
> "The -E, -a and -i options are non-standard FreeBSD extensions and may not be
> available on other operating systems."
>
> So perhaps a better solution is to not use the -i option at all and be POSIX
> compliant?
>
> Informally looking through some of the code, this was the only use of the -i
> option that I found.
If that is at all reasonable, then I think it's the best thing to do.
FWIW, the saem text about -i being a FreeBSD extension appears in the
NetBSD man page.
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