| Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:42:36 +0100
| From: Conor Mac Aoidh <conormacaoidh at gmail.com>
|
| Just noticed this morning an error with the command:
|
| [...] sed -i -e '/*/d' $file [...]
|
| sed expects anything after the -i to be the extention given to all the
| backup files it makes.
No, it does not. The suffix is _optional_.
That means the suffix, if specified, must be the
remainder of the -i argument. In the above case,
there is nothing, so there is no suffix, so there
is (for GNU sed(1) on Linux) no backup.
cheers!
-blf-
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