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Date:      Wed, 8 May 2002 07:54:47 -0500
From:      "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jeremy Lea <reg@FreeBSD.org>, "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>, "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/sed main.c sed.1
Message-ID:  <20020508125447.GI4773@madman.nectar.cc>
In-Reply-To: <20020508123431.A53316@shale.csir.co.za>
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On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 12:34:31PM +0200, Jeremy Lea wrote:
> We don't need two options, and I'm pretty sure that people will struggle
> to provide a good reason for being able to change the backup extension. 

I know this isn't really adding anything to the thread and is beside
your point, but: I would want to change the backup extensions BECAUSE
patch uses `.orig' by default.  After doing something like:

   % patch < some/patch/file
   % perl -pe -i~ 's/%%FOO%%/foopath/' file-a file-b dir/file-c

I want to have the original (pre-patch) files around for comparison as
`.orig', not stomped by perl (s/perl/sed/ as appropriate :-)

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques A. Vidrine <n@nectar.cc>                 http://www.nectar.cc/
NTT/Verio SME          .     FreeBSD UNIX     .       Heimdal Kerberos
jvidrine@verio.net     .  nectar@FreeBSD.org  .          nectar@kth.se

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