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Date:      Sat, 03 Sep 2005 11:14:25 +0100
From:      Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
To:        Rein Kadastik <wigry@uninet.ee>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sed not working
Message-ID:  <43197781.1080204@dial.pipex.com>
In-Reply-To: <431954E6.1060802@uninet.ee>
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Rein Kadastik wrote:

> Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
>
>> Rein Kadastik wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Rein Kadastik wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I have a problem with sed on one of my systems.
>>>
>>>
>> You've probably tried this, but what does "which sed" show on the 
>> broken system?  It should show /usr/bin/sed and if it doesn't, 
>> there's your problem :-)
>
>
> It shows /usr/bin/sed
>
[...]

>
> The ident output is identical on the working system. I guess, that it 
> is some sort of a regex library issue, as sed itself does not contain 
> regex engine.

Well, that was going to be my second guess :-)

Do you have any extra compile options in /etc/make.conf which might be 
making something go wrong?  Extra optimisations etc.

--Alex




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