https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240556
Bug ID: 240556
Summary: Synopsis in sed(1) is wrong
Product: Documentation
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Many People
Priority: ---
Component: Manual Pages
Assignee: b...@freebsd.org
Reporter: o...@freebsd.org
CC: d...@freebsd.org
Created attachment 207455
--> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=207455&action=edit
Patch for usr.bin/sed/sed.1
Short description:
Apparently, when the -u, -i and -I options where added to sed(1), it was
forgotten to add them to both lines in the SYNOPSIS section. They were only
added to the second line, although they apply to both.
Long description:
The SYNOPSIS section of the sed(1) manual page contains two distinct usage
lines:
In the first usage, a separate <command> argument is present. In this case, the
-e and -f options are NOT allowed.
In the second usage, one or more commands are specified using one or more -e
and/or -f options. In this case, there is NO separate <command> argument.
ALL THE OTHER options (except -e and -f) can be used with BOTH usages,
including the -u, -i and -I options. This can be easily verified by looking at
the source code (usr.bin/sed/main.c), or by just trying it. For example, this
command works perfectly fine, but it's disallowed by the SYNOPSIS currently:
sed -i BAK s/foo/bar/g some_file
Please see the attached patch; it fixes the problem. It applies cleanly to
both head and stable/12.
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