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Subject: Re: bin/39599: sed -i -e '[...]' file saves backup file with extension -e
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Synopsis: sed -i -e '[...]' file saves backup file with extension -e

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: mph
State-Changed-When: Thu Jun 20 18:06:13 EDT 2002
State-Changed-Why: 
It was not clear to the submitter that "zero-length extension" means
that an extension of "" is required, vs. a missing argument.

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