> Aha... I knew it had to be something.  I couldn't quite wrap my head around 
> the idea that sed is misbehaving.. it seems way too old and set in its ways 
> for that.   However, I did get the -i'' syntax from somewhere.. perhaps it's 
> a GNUism and I just forgot where I picked it up.

In GNU sed, the -i option does not require an argument, so "sed -i -e
's/a/b/' -e 's/c/d/' ..." is legal syntax.
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