On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 04:47:49PM +1100, Damien Miller wrote: > On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Ted Unangst wrote: > > > Ordinarily, extensions to standard utilities are bad, but I think it's > > worth considering when the flag is easily understood and provides a > > substantial benefit. I think case insenstive matching in sed qualifies. > > > > The diff below actually implements this behavior two different ways. > > Option 1 is to add /i to substitution patterns. Option 2 adds -i to the > > command line. > > +1 on option 1. Case insensitive matching would be very handy, but I don't > like the idea of adding a non-standard commandline flag that isn't > supported somewhere else.
Agreed, especially since the -i flag means something entirely different in the non-standard implementation we're imitating here.
