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Old 10th March 2009
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I don't understand the purpose of "-e.orig" option for SED. What command should be executed there?
It should be -i.orig, it edits files in place saving a backup to <file>.orig
Sorry for the typo.

Note you may also need to escape the plus signs (\+ instead of +) in the search pattern ... Not sure and I can't try it (Recently moved, no internet yet, mostly Windows at work ...).
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