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Date:      Wed, 09 Nov 2011 23:00:17 -0800
From:      perryh@pluto.rain.com
To:        vince@unsane.co.uk
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sed vs gnu sed
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Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> wrote:

> bsd sed (correctly according to SUS at least, I believe[1])
> appends a newline when writing to standard out, gnu sed doesnt.

The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many to
choose from  -- Tanenbaum

> is there any easy way to make our sed do the same as gnu sed here?

As long as it is OK to remove _all_ newlines -- which seems to be
the case here -- you could pipe the output through tr -d '\012'



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