Re: [Flex-help] Please help me about linguistic typology

[Hugh S. <hg...@dm...>]

On Sun, 16 Jun 2013, Daniel Janzon wrote:

> _______________________________________
> From: Hugh Sasse [hg...@dm...]
> 
> >> sed -i 's/\(.*[^ \t]\)[ \t]*$/\1/''  your-file.lex   # Remove whitespace at end of line
> >
> >It is the -e option to take an expression.  See tutorials here:
> >http://www.dblab.ece.ntua.gr/~george/sed/
> 
> The -i option edits the file in-place, no stdout output. Hence the backup... The original
> poster mentioned ubuntu and -i works for gnu sed. In FreeBSD -i takes an argument,
> but works similarly.
> 
Sorry for that, then.  I'd missed that, and now I see where
Perl, et al, get -i from.  Thank you.

        Hugh