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Subject: Re: sed argument processing b0rked?
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> Aha... I knew it had to be something. =C2=A0I couldn't quite wrap my head=
 around the idea that sed is misbehaving.. it seems way too old and set in =
its ways for that. =C2=A0 However, I did get the -i'' syntax from somewhere=
.. perhaps it's a GNUism and I just forgot where I picked it up.

In GNU sed, the -i option does not require an argument, so "sed -i -e
's/a/b/' -e 's/c/d/' ..." is legal syntax.