Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!bionet!apple!motcsd!hpda!hpcupt1!hpisod2!decot 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 References: <49@docwrk.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino Lines: 5 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