bug#20572: bug about sed when use -i

[Davide Brini]

On Thu, 14 May 2015 17:00:58 +0800, Lu Qin <address@hidden> wrote:

> when I use sed like this :
> 
> sed -i  -e 's/\(public class TInfo .*\)$/\1\
> \
>   private static final long serialVersionUID = -4659975753252858243l;
> \/\/ See ACCUMULO-3132\ /'
> src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/trace/thrift/TInfo.java
> 
> It will create a file name TInfo.java-e as a backup,but the -e is not the
> backup extension I use.
> 
> 
> If I use it like this:
> sed -i ''  -e 's/\(public class TInfo .*\)$/\1\
> \
>   private static final long serialVersionUID = -4659975753252858243l;
> \/\/ See ACCUMULO-3132\ /'
> src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/trace/thrift/TInfo.java
> 
> It will be work ok and not create a backup file what I want.

I'm almost sure that you're not using GNU sed.

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