Re: Portability of `?' in sed

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Earnie" == Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Earnie> Are you asking about the metacharacter ? which indicates
Earnie> "matches zero or one occurences of the preceding regular
Earnie> expression" or the quoted metacharacter \?  which indicates a
Earnie> literal `?'?

The meta char.

Earnie> P.S.: Either way I don't see why it shouldn't be portable on
Earnie> all systems.

I think the answer from Nicolas Joly demonstrate it is not.  Thanks!

        Akim