sais that -i option modifies the input file.
But here the input is a stream!
Try withou -i ...
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Just seeing that the first sed also gets arguments (from the sub command in backticks) that can be modified. I am not sure how this combination is handled...
And your error is a "vim" error, so it seems that this does not work at all.
Maybe you should write a "vim" macro instead!
Trying without "-i" won't save the changes in the /tmp/tmp.* file, which is required in my case. i am exploring -s option in ed as ctsgnb suggested.
Thanks
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I have tried something like below, but still it doesn't work as expected:
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##################################################################
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