diff --git a/bin/sgit b/bin/sgit
index c5ccb9f61..f6c72db25 100755
--- a/bin/sgit
+++ b/bin/sgit
@@ -16,22 +16,32 @@
 # - Cody Boone Ferguson (@xexyl)
 #
 
-export SGIT_VERSION="0.0.2-1 13-02-2023" # format: major.minor.patch-release DD-MM-YYYY
+export SGIT_VERSION="0.0.4-1 15-02-2023" # format: major.minor.patch-release DD-MM-YYYY
 
-USAGE="usage: $(basename "$0") [-h] [-V] [-v level] [-x] [-e command] <glob...>
+USAGE="usage: $(basename "$0") [-h] [-V] [-v level] [-x] [-I] [-o sed_options] [-s sed] [-e command] <glob...>
 
     -h			    print help and exit
     -V			    print version and exit
-    -x			    turn on tracing (set -x)
     -v level		    set verbosity level
+    -x			    turn on tracing (set -x)
+    -I			    disable in place editing
+    -o			    sed options (don't pass '-')
+    -s sed		    set path to sed
     -e command		    append sed command to execute on globs
 
 sgit version: $SGIT_VERSION"
 
+SED="$(type -P sed)"
+export SED
+export SED_OPTIONS=""
+export I_FLAG=
 export VERBOSITY=0
+
+# we need an array for sed commands
+declare -a SED_COMMANDS
 # parse args
 #
-while getopts :hVxv:e: flag; do
+while getopts :hVv:xIo:s:e: flag; do
     case "$flag" in
     h)	echo "$USAGE" 1>&2
 	exit 2
@@ -39,9 +49,15 @@ while getopts :hVxv:e: flag; do
     V)	echo "$SGIT_VERSION" 1>&2
 	exit 2
 	;;
+    v)	VERBOSITY="$OPTARG";
+	;;
     x)	set -x
 	;;
-    v)	VERBOSITY="$OPTARG";
+    I)	I_FLAG="-I"
+	;;
+    o)	SED_OPTIONS="-$OPTARG"
+	;;
+    s)	SED="$OPTARG"
 	;;
     e)	SED_COMMANDS+=(-e "$OPTARG")
 	;;
@@ -67,6 +83,25 @@ if [[ -z "${SED_COMMANDS[*]}" ]]; then
     exit 2
 fi
 
+# check that sed is executable
+
+if [[ -z "$SED" ]]; then
+    echo "$(basename "$0"): ERROR: sed cannot be empty" 1>&2
+    echo 1>&2
+    echo "$USAGE" 1>&2
+    exit 2
+elif [[ ! -f "$SED" ]]; then
+    echo "$(basename "$0"): ERROR: sed is not a regular file: $SED" 1>&2
+    echo 1>&2
+    echo "$USAGE" 1>&2
+    exit 2
+elif [[ ! -x "$SED" ]]; then
+    echo "$(basename "$0"): ERROR: sed is not an executable file: $SED" 1>&2
+    echo 1>&2
+    echo "$USAGE" 1>&2
+    exit 2
+fi
+
 # also check number of remaining args
 if [[ "$#" -eq 0 ]]; then
     echo "$(basename "$0"): ERROR: you must specify at least one glob" 1>&2
@@ -84,14 +119,14 @@ if [[ "$status" -ne 0 ]]; then
 fi
 
 if [[ $VERBOSITY -gt 1 ]]; then
-    echo "debug[2]: sed commands:  ${SED_COMMANDS}[*]" 1>&2
+    echo "debug[2]: sed commands:  ${SED_COMMANDS[*]}" 1>&2
 fi
 
-# This is not the best performance because it does this on all files of the glob
-# rather than only those files matched by the glob with matching text but it's
-# better than it used to be (it used to run git ls-files on the repo for each
-# sed command so the more you had the slow it would become as it had to get the
-# list of files each time!).
+# This might not the best performance because it does this on all files of the
+# glob rather than only those files matched by the glob with matching text but
+# it's better than it used to be (it used to run git ls-files on the repo for
+# each sed command so the more you had the slow it would become as it had to get
+# the list of files each time!).
 #
 # A better approach would be to somehow use git grep to find files that match
 # but this would complicate the command line (at least in anyway I can think of
@@ -110,12 +145,34 @@ while [[ "$i" -le "$#" ]]; do
 	echo "debug[2]: found glob: $1" 1>&2
     fi
     if [[ "$VERBOSITY" -ge 1 ]]; then
-	echo "debug[1]: about to run: git ls-files $1 | xargs sed -i\"\" ${SED_COMMANDS[*]}" 1>&2
+	if [[ -z "$I_FLAG" ]]; then
+	    if [[ -n "$SED_OPTIONS" ]]; then
+		echo "debug[1]: about to run: git ls-files $1 | xargs $SED -i\"\" $SED_OPTIONS ${SED_COMMANDS[*]}" 1>&2
+	    else
+		echo "debug[1]: about to run: git ls-files $1 | xargs $SED -i\"\" ${SED_COMMANDS[*]}" 1>&2
+	    fi
+	else
+	    if [[ -n "$SED_OPTIONS" ]]; then
+		echo "debug[1]: about to run: git ls-files $1 | xargs $SED $SED_OPTIONS ${SED_COMMANDS[*]}" 1>&2
+	    else
+		echo "debug[1]: about to run: git ls-files $1 | xargs $SED ${SED_COMMANDS[*]}" 1>&2
+	    fi
+	fi
+    fi
+
+    if [[ -z "$I_FLAG" ]]; then
+	if [[ -n "$SED_OPTIONS" ]]; then
+	    git ls-files "$1" | xargs "$SED" -i"" "$SED_OPTIONS" "${SED_COMMANDS[*]}"
+	else
+	    git ls-files "$1" | xargs "$SED" -i"" "${SED_COMMANDS[*]}"
+	fi
+    else
+	if [[ -n "$SED_OPTIONS" ]]; then
+	    git ls-files "$1" | xargs "$SED" "$SED_OPTIONS" "${SED_COMMANDS[*]}"
+	else
+	    git ls-files "$1" | xargs "$SED" "${SED_COMMANDS[*]}"
+	fi
     fi
-    # shellcheck disable=SC2086
-    # SC2086 (info): Double quote to prevent globbing and word splitting. We can't
-    # quote this because we need to have word splitting.
-    git ls-files "$1" | xargs sed -i"" "${SED_COMMANDS[@]}"
     ((i++))
     shift 1
 done