Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:00:09 -1000 From: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net> To: Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sed is broken under freebsd? Message-ID: <20110112070009.GB20924@lava.net> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin=Jeah8UX7QB-Uk1x9VYBtnFw=nX8fptLJW%2Bs4@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTin=Jeah8UX7QB-Uk1x9VYBtnFw=nX8fptLJW%2Bs4@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 02:32:52AM +0100, Oliver Pinter wrote:
> hi all!
>
> The freebsd versions of sed contained a bug/regression, when \n char
> can i subsitue, gsed not affected with this bug:
> FreeBSD xxx 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:55:53
> UTC 2010 root@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> i386
> aa@xxx ~> echo axa | sed s/x/\n/g
> ana
> aa@xxx ~> echo axa | sed s/x/'\n'/g
> ana
Different than GNU is not a bug.
I have 7.3 here. It behaves as the above, which is how the man page says it
should work. The following is how the man page specifies you can substitute
a newline, by prefacing a quoted actual newline with a backslash:
$ echo axa | sed 's/x/\
> /g'
a
a
That's how I remember classic sed behaving (Unix v7 or thereabouts.)
-- Clifton
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