[ILUG] Recursively Remove Comments

[Brian Foster]

  | Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:48:07 +0100
  | From: Conor Mac Aoidh <conormacaoidh at gmail.com>
  | 
  | On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Brian Foster <blf at utvinternet.ie> wrote:
  | >  | From: Conor Mac Aoidh <conormacaoidh at gmail.com>
  | >  |[ ... ]
  | >  | 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_ [ on Linux ...].
  | 
  | Well I can assure you that it does make a backup on OS X... for example this
  | command:
  | 
  | sed -i -e '/*/d' index.php
  | 
  | will remove comments from index.php, and create a backup file called
  | index.php-e

 That's entirely possible.

 It does not, and as far as I know never has,
 worked that why on Linux.  I can see someone
 thinking that behaviour would be useful, so
 I'm not totally surprised the varient exists.

cheers!
	-blf-

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