Re: Nice easy sed question

On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 11:14:50PM +0100, Frank Leonhardt wrote:

>With an -i in any variations of the first two (single command or two 
>-e -e) I just get errors like:
>
>": invalid command code e
>": extra characters at the end of N command
>": extra characters after \ at the end of a command

Because you put the command line in the wrong order? Just looking at 
the man page, apparently most one-letter flags come before the editing 
command, but -I and -i come after it. Peculiar.

SYNOPSIS
      sed [-Ealnru] command [-I extension] [-i extension] [file ...]
      sed [-Ealnru] [-e command] [-f command_file] [-I extension]
          [-i extension] [file ...]

I haven't tested this. Haven't looked at the newline problem, either.