Subject: bug#39999: sed -i non-POSIX

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 17:37:13 -0700

Greg,

Good point.  The BSD sed man page says:

"The -E, -a and -i options are non-standard FreeBSD extensions and may not be available on other operating systems."

So perhaps a better solution is to not use the -i option at all and be POSIX compliant?

Informally looking through some of the code, this was the only use of the -i option that I found.

wlh