Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:05:02 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Aaron Luz <aaron@csh.rit.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Matthew R. Dietrich" <mrd2000@imsa.edu> Subject: Re: sed G? Message-ID: <20020423130501.GD8750@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20020423074017.A2763@thud.rochester.rr.com> References: <20020421154846.A29729@imsa.edu> <20020423074017.A2763@thud.rochester.rr.com>
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On 2002-04-23 07:40, Aaron Luz wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 03:48:46PM -0500, Matthew R. Dietrich wrote:
> > Does anyone understand why "sed G" doesn't doublespace a provided input? It
> > does under other systems I'm aquanted with. Does BSD sed not set the initial
> > hold space to a empty line? I'm running a pretty recent stable...
>
> It seems to work for me.
It was recently fixed by jmallett,
in src/usr.bin/sed/process.c revision 1.14:
revision 1.14
date: 2002/04/05 05:40:20; author: jmallett; state: Exp; lines: +2 -0
Fix sed(1) behaviour for 'G' when given null holdspace by making sure it
contains a \n.
PR: misc/26153
Submitted by: ashp
Reviewed by: mike
Obtained from: NetBSD
MFC after: 2 days
Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/
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