On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Bob Willcox <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 09:00:09PM -1000, Clifton Royston wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 02:32:52AM +0100, Oliver Pinter wrote: >> > hi all! >> > >> > The freebsd versions of sed contained a bug/regression, when \n char >> > can i subsitue, gsed not affected with this bug: >> >> > FreeBSD xxx 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:55:53 >> > UTC 2010 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC >> > i386 >> > a...@xxx ~> echo axa | sed s/x/\n/g >> > ana >> > a...@xxx ~> echo axa | sed s/x/'\n'/g >> > ana >> >> Different than GNU is not a bug. >> >> I have 7.3 here. It behaves as the above, which is how the man page says it >> should work. The following is how the man page specifies you can substitute >> a newline, by prefacing a quoted actual newline with a backslash: >> >> $ echo axa | sed 's/x/\ >> > /g' >> a >> a >> >> That's how I remember classic sed behaving (Unix v7 or thereabouts.) >> -- Clifton > > FWI, AIX 6.1 sed works as the FreeBSD sed does.
Solaris 2.6 and OSX 10.6 , do the same thing as FreeBSD as well. -- mark saad | [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
