Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 23:06:03 +0000 From: "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG> To: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/sed main.c sed.1 Message-ID: <20020507230602.GA1584@FreeBSD.ORG> In-Reply-To: <20020507155554.B31179@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200205071832.g47IWJO26790@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020507214610.GA30780@FreeBSD.ORG> <20020507155554.B31179@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 03:55:54PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:46:11PM +0000, J. Mallett wrote: > > On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 11:32:18AM -0700, J. Mallett wrote: > > 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. > > Please do not. Either make -i handle no argument (as Perl does); or > require an argument. But please don't be NIH and use a different flag. That was suggested by iedowse, and Wollman has told me before that optionally taking an argument is bad. Would you settle for zero-length argument acting like perl -i with no argument? If so: http://people.freebsd.org/~jmallett/sed-more-i.diff -- jmallett@FreeBSD.org | C, MIPS, POSIX, UNIX, BSD, IRC Geek. http://www.FreeBSD.org | The Power to Serve "I've never tried to give my life meaning by demeaning you." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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