On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:51 PM, John Cowan <co...@mercury.ccil.org> wrote: > Andy Bennett scripsit: > >> Strange! The first part of the first sed is supposed to remove the '*' >> that indicates the currently checked out branch. > > The meaning of the regex /^*/ is implementation-dependent: it can be > read as "remove any number of hats, including zero" or "remove a star at > the beginning of the line". It's safer to disambiguate these as /\^*/ > and /^\*/ respectively.
Or replace every use of sed and awk with perl, which is consistent across all platforms and scales better. -- Alex _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
