Re: Edit in place, then print

[Arkadiusz Drabczyk]

On Sun, Feb 02, 2025 at 11:59:03PM +0100, Peter Kozich (GM) wrote:
> Could someone please help me by answering this:
> 
> I would expect that these two commands are equivalent:
> 
> sed -i -e '1i\\'     -e 'w/dev/stdout' file.txt
> sed -i -e '1s/^/\n/' -e 'w/dev/stdout' file.txt
> 
> The second one does what I wanted: inserts a blank line at the top of
> the file then prints the edited file.
> 
> The first one, however, inserts a blank line, but prints the original
> file, not the edited one.
> 
> Is my expectation wrong somehow or should I have sent this to the bug
> list?

I think the reason is that i does not add a line to the pattern space
like s does.

BTW, this list is very quiet, maintainers do not reply to any
messages.

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