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  • I don't think sed -i is any more portable than sed --in-place, it's a GNU extension anyway. FreeBSD also has it, but the suffix argument is compulsory, to you have to write sed -i .bak or sed -i ''. Commented Nov 11, 2010 at 16:42
  • sed v4.1.2, please see question for update Commented Nov 11, 2010 at 17:35