Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:35:58 -0500 From: Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sed is broken under freebsd? Message-ID: <AANLkTimHnC5uhcOmmmHfG7178Nz6OhaQqfXBT4eG0JE7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110112223229.GB65854@rancor.immure.com> References: <AANLkTin=Jeah8UX7QB-Uk1x9VYBtnFw=nX8fptLJW%2Bs4@mail.gmail.com> <20110112070009.GB20924@lava.net> <20110112223229.GB65854@rancor.immure.com>
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On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> wrote: > 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 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 root@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/s= ys/GENERIC >> > =C2=A0i386 >> > 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. =C2=A0It behaves as the above, which is how the man pag= e says it >> should work. =C2=A0The following is how the man page specifies you can s= ubstitute >> a newline, by prefacing a quoted actual newline with a backslash: >> >> $ echo axa | sed 's/x/\ >> > /g' >> a >> a >> >> =C2=A0 That's how I remember classic sed behaving (Unix v7 or thereabout= s.) >> =C2=A0 -- Clifton > > FWI, AIX 6.1 sed works as the FreeBSD sed does. Solaris 2.6 and OSX 10.6 , do the same thing as FreeBSD as well. --=20 mark saad | nonesuch@longcount.org
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