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Subject: Re: sed is broken under freebsd?
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 09:00:09PM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote:
> 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

FWI, AIX 6.1 sed works as the FreeBSD sed does.

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