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

[Will E. <wes...@gm...>]

On Sunday, 16 June 2013,  8:53 pm +0100, Hugh Sasse <hg...@dm...> wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 

Oddly, the -i option is newish in GNU sed. It's an instance of sed
borrowing from perl.

>         Hugh
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