Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:57:14 +0530 From: "Joseph Koshy" <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> To: "Yar Tikhiy" <yar@comp.chem.msu.su> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sed -i Message-ID: <84dead720703260827q29ed7f26hd79dde461fe50d9b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070326135106.GG60831@comp.chem.msu.su> References: <20070326135106.GG60831@comp.chem.msu.su>
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> Recently noticed that our sed(1) differs from its GNU > analog in that in -i mode it considers all files as a > single sequence of lines while the latter treats each file > independently. The in-line mode isn't in POSIX, so it isn't > really clear which way is correct. Aren't sed's addresses required to be cumulative across its input files? http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/sed.html -- FreeBSD Volunteer, http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy
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