GNU bug report logs - #20572
bug about sed when use -i

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Package: sed;

Reported by: Lu Qin <luq.java <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 09:17:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Lu Qin <luq.java <at> gmail.com>, Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk <at> kcn.ne.jp>
Cc: 20572 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20572: bug about sed when use -i
Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 02:17:24 +0000
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tags 20572 notabug
close 20572
thanks

Thanks for confirming that the problem was not with GNU sed.

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 6:55 PM Lu Qin <luq.java <at> gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Thank you for you replay.
>
> I google the problem and I found that It is because I use mac and the sed
> version is not same as the GNU sed .
>
>
> > 在 2015年5月15日,06:39,Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk <at> kcn.ne.jp> 写道:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 14 May 2015 17:00:58 +0800
> > Lu Qin <luq.java <at> gmail.com> 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.
> >
> > $ tar xzf accumulo-1.6.2-src.tar.gz
> > $ cd accumulo-1.6.2/trace
> >
> > $ sed --version
> > sed (GNU sed) 4.2.2
> > Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <
> http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
> > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> >
> > Written by Jay Fenlason, Tom Lord, Ken Pizzini,
> > and Paolo Bonzini.
> > GNU sed home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/>.
> > General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>.
> > E-mail bug reports to: <bug-sed <at> gnu.org>.
> > Be sure to include the word ``sed'' somewhere in the ``Subject:'' field.
> >
> > $ 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
> >
> > $ ls src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/trace/thrift/TInfo.java*
> > src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/trace/thrift/TInfo.java
> >
> > $ 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
> > sed: can't read : No such file or directory
> >
> > $ ls src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/trace/thrift/TInfo.java*
> > src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/trace/thrift/TInfo.java
> >
> >
> > I see that it is not a bug.
> >
> >
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