> sed "s/^ *\([0-9]*\)\t.*$/\1/" hunspell-capmain-plus_de_DE[...]
> sed: 1: "s/^ *\([0-9]*\)\t.*$/\1/": RE error: trailing backslash (\)
(1) Others have already corrected this silently but to make it explicit:
The \ need to be \\ within double-quotes. They simply
vanish when used as above.
The \ could remain single \ within single-quotes.
(2) Also, as others have already noted: NetBSD/POSIX sed won't grok
the \t as a TAB notation. A cut-n-paste-safe version would be:
TAB=$(printf '\t')
sed 's/^ *\([0-9]*\)'"$TAB"'.*$/\1/' hunspell-capmain-plus_de_DE[...]
Martin Neitzel
[Sorry for the extra header quote in my last mail.]
