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Oh for fuck's sake (gekinzuku.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Can't I go one week without having to uninstall and reinstall the damn deb file?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Normally sed just passes along the edited text to STDout (printing in the terminal usually).

With the -i option it actually changes the input files. If you add an extension immediately after the -i it apparently makes a backup of the original with that extension.