#342739 sed: manpage is lacking

Package:
sed
Source:
sed
Description:
GNU stream editor for filtering/transforming text
Submitter:
Justin Pryzby
Date:
2011-08-29 08:33:05 UTC
Severity:
normal
#342739#5
Date:
2005-12-10 00:22:00 UTC
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The sed manpage fails to document lots of stuff, and there seem to be
better versions available.  For example, it doesn't document //I
syntax for case insensitive matching, nor does it document s///FLAGS
g, even.
#342739#10
Date:
2006-03-03 18:50:40 UTC
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The behaviour of \0 is also undocumented.
#342739#15
Date:
2011-08-29 03:30:25 UTC
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-i[SUFFIX], --in-place[=SUFFIX]

              edit files in place (makes backup if extension supplied)

Should be read as
#342739#20
Date:
2011-08-29 08:30:24 UTC
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Applied upstream, thanks (commit dd275ee12aa73447748f269df2c899635a43e15b).

Paolo