sed creating an extra file with e at the file name
 

Hi Members,

I've file named A200205__mlst__Staphylococcus_aureus__results.txt
It has column 1 as:

I'm running below command:
It replaces out_paired_ in line 2 of column 1 to null.
I'm having the desired output, however, surprisingly a new file is created with name A200205__mlst__Staphylococcus_aureus__results.txte; i.e an extra e

I am unable to figure it out the cause of this hack!

the sed manpage says:

that is, the -i switch replaces the contents of the file passed as argument instead of writing to standard output. However, if you supply a suffix to -i, sed creates a backup of the original file with the suffix appended to the filename.
So, in this case, you used an -ie switch and the "e" is interpreted as the suffix for the -i switch.
If you want to avoid this, separate the switches:

Hi millgates,
Thanks.

That worked like charm.
Got to be reading MAN pages more closely. :study: :redface: