Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 21:30:02 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/sed main.c sed.1 Message-ID: <XFMail.20020507213002.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <p0511173eb8fe0c98ead4@[128.113.24.47]>
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On 07-May-2002 Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 9:46 PM +0000 5/7/02, J. Mallett wrote: >>On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 11:32:18AM -0700, J. Mallett wrote: >>> jmallett 2002/05/07 11:32:18 PDT >>> >>> Modified files: >>> usr.bin/sed main.c sed.1 >>> Log: >> > Add a -i option to sed(1) to do inplace editing, to give >> > us an alternative to Perl for such things. >> >>Patch to remove the "droppings" as jhb put it, if a nil >>extension is specified. >> >>I'll implement a -I option which takes no arguments on >>top of this, if it looks kosher. > > I am not quite sure we should debate this on the cvs-lists, > but I don't want to move it to -arch or -hackers just yet > either... > > If I think back to the standards definition of 'xargs', the > capital letter options *require* the extra parameter, and > the lowercase options do not. I will admit the lowercase > options also allow for a screwy "tacked-on optional string", > but I will ignore that kind of option as we do not want to > go in that direction. > > Thus, I would suggest that options be '-I <prefix>' or just > plain '-i', where -i is the same as '-I ""'. This would allow 'sed -ie' which perl currently can't handle as well. I actually think this suggestion might be the best but that's just MO. :) -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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