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Date:      Thu, 7 Sep 1995 10:30:35 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        freebsd-bugs@wcarchive.cdrom.com, hobbit@avian.org
Subject:   Re: sed bug?
Message-ID:  <199509070030.KAA08719@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>I have stumbled across an inconsistency in FreeBSD 'sed'.  On every other
>platform I have access to, the regex `/[/|]/' to mean "slash or pipe" is valid,
>but the FreeBSD version errors out on this.  Trying to quote the embedded
>slash, a la `/[\/|]/', avoids the error, but that breaks on other systems
>that match on `\` as well.  One or the other is clearly wrong.

This was fixed in 2.2-current on Aug 16 and in 2.1 on Aug 26.

Bruce



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