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From: decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: global replacements with sed
Message-ID: <14020072@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Date: 11 Aug 89 22:20:14 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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The problem is that sed does not know how to infer the final slash
when you leave it out.  ex/vi and ed both know to add the trailing slash,
but sed doesn't.

Dave