Chop and replace method??

[jd1008]

On 04/04/2015 12:41 PM, Jon Radel wrote:
>
>>>
>>> sed -i .bak 's/href=\"..\/..\/..\/archival\/archive13\//href=\"/' 
>>> *.html
>>>
>> should not the args include
>>
>> -s, --separate
>>
>>               consider files as separate rather than as a single 
>> continuous long stream.
>>
>
> ??   There is no -s option for sed in either 8.4 or 10.1 base 
> version.  Which sed is that?  FSF running on a Linux box, per chance?
>
  I am using Fedora Linux, with sed-4.2.2-9.fc21.x86_64
Sorry, I did not mean to cause any confusion. As old as sed is,
I was not expecting the args to be so different.
Did not know that the freebsd sed does not have this arg.
My FBSD machine died :(

> in any case
>
> ---
>      -i extension
>              Edit files in-place similarly to -I, but treat each file 
> indepen-
>              dently from other files.  In particular, line numbers in 
> each
>              file start at 1, the ``$'' address matches the last line 
> of the
>              current file, and address ranges are limited to the 
> current file.
>              (See Sed Addresses.)  The net result is as though each 
> file were
>              edited by a separate sed instance.
> ---
>
> covers what you need in FreeBSD sed.
>
> --Jon Radel
> jon at radel.com
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