Bug#574877: Isn't now days, the aggregated -in command line switches expected to get interpreted equivalently to -i -n ?

2010-03-22 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Not sure if I shouldn't have set severity to wishlist.  Isn't now days, the aggregated -in command line switches expected to get interpreted equivalently to -i -n ? No, -i has an optional argument which is the backup file suffix, just like -en != -e -n. Paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#574877: Isn't now days, the aggregated -in command line switches expected to get interpreted equivalently to -i -n ?

2010-03-21 Thread Regid Ichira
Package: sed Version: 4.2.1-6 Severity: normal When I used the aggregated command line switches -in, I was surprised to find out the 'n' was taken to be as the prefix of another input file. Consider the following: $ ls noSuchFile*   ls: cannot access noSuchFile*: No such file or