On 2 May 2011 07:00, Tomasz Czapiewski <[email protected]> wrote:
> Busybox 'sed' handles '\r' in replacements differently than real 'sed'.
>
> Examples from BusyBox sed:
> # echo 'something' | busybox sed 's/something/something\r/g'
> somethingr
> # echo 'rambo' | busybox sed 's/\r//g'
> ambo
> # echo -e 'rambo\r and \rrambo' | busybox sed 's/\r//g'
> ambo
>
> While outputs of the same using real 'sed':
> # echo 'something' | sed 's/something/something\r/g'
> something
> # echo 'rambo' | sed 's/\r//g'
> rambo
> # echo -e 'rambo\r and \rrambo' | sed 's/\r//g'
> rambo and rambo
>
> This make some problems with my scripts portability.
> None of BusyBox 'sed' applet parameters, like '-r' help to solve it.

That's because it's a GNUism; BSD sed doesn't accept this either.

GNU sed is not 'real sed', there is no 'real sed'.

What are you trying to do?

Chris
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