Moving from bug-gnulib:
* Ralf Wildenhues wrote on Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 07:23:23AM CEST:
> AIX sed copes with unindented comments, but fails over indentation with
> space or TAB:
>
> $ echo | sed -e '# comment ' -e ' #indented comment'
> sed: 0602-403 #indented comment is not a recognized function.
> $ echo | sed -e ' #indented comment'
> sed: 0602-403 #indented comment is not a recognized function.
OK?
Thanks,
Ralf
doc: AIX sed dislikes indented comments.
* doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of Usual Tools) <sed>: Update.
diff --git a/doc/autoconf.texi b/doc/autoconf.texi
index f3dd336..f28c6a4 100644
--- a/doc/autoconf.texi
+++ b/doc/autoconf.texi
@@ -18377,8 +18377,8 @@ Limitations of Usual Tools
Unicos 9 @command{sed} loops endlessly on patterns like @samp{.*\n.*}.
Sed scripts should not use branch labels longer than 7 characters and
-should not contain comments. HP-UX sed has a limit of 99 commands
-(not counting @samp{:} commands) and
+should not contain comments; AIX 5.3 @command{sed} rejects indented comments.
+HP-UX sed has a limit of 99 commands (not counting @samp{:} commands) and
48 labels, which can not be circumvented by using more than one script
file. It can execute up to 19 reads with the @samp{r} command per cycle.
Solaris @command{/usr/ucb/sed} rejects usages that exceed a limit of
