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Re: sed --posix
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Eric Blake |
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Re: sed --posix |
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Wed, 27 May 2009 05:14:33 -0600 |
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According to Simon Josefsson on 5/27/2009 4:33 AM:
> But adding --posix makes it fail:
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> address@hidden:~/src/libidn master$ echo 'version 2 '|sed --posix -e
> 's/version \(2\|2\.1\)\([ ,]\)/version 3\2/g'
You are using \|, which is undefined in BRE, and therefore (correctly)
rejected as a non-POSIX extension when using --posix with newer sed. It
was a bug in earlier sed that \| was not identified as non-portable.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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