On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:31:59 David Kirkby wrote:
> On 22 January 2012 21:54, Stephen Montgomery-Smith 
<step...@missouri.edu>wrote:
> > I fixed the problem as follows:
> > 
> > sed -i .bak -e 's/Commentator/Commensator/g' \
> 
> That's not a fix. The POSIX definition of 'sed' does not include a -i
> option, so this will not be portable. I'm 99.9 % sure it would break on
> Solaris
> 
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904875/utilities/sed.html
> 
> 
I agree with David. I have discovered to my horror that -i is not available
with the sed shipped with AIX for example. This is downright painful but it is 
indeed not portable.

Francois

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