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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?
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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
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