inplace-editing – Tarik Billa

sed -i command for in-place editing to work with both GNU sed and BSD/OSX

February 20, 2023 by Tarik

OS X sed handles the -i argument differently to the Linux version. You can generate a command that might “work” for both by adding -e in this way: # vv sed -i -e ‘s|$.*$\.o:|$(OBJ_DIR)/\1.o $(OBJ_DIR)/\1.d $(TEST_OBJ_DIR)/\1_utest.o:|’ $@ OS X sed -i interprets the next thing after the -i as a file extension for a backup … Read more

sed command with -i option (in-place editing) works fine on Ubuntu but not Mac [duplicate]

October 25, 2022 by Tarik

Ubuntu ships with GNU sed, where the suffix for the -i option is optional. OS X ships with BSD sed, where the suffix is mandatory. Try sed -i ”