On 11/11/2011 10:28 PM, Regid Ichira wrote:
I expected sed -i '$p;$d' to output the last line, 2 in this case; and to delete that line from the file.
No, the output of "p" goes directly to the output file even with "sed -i". You should use "$w/dev/stdout" instead of "$p".
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