On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Vegard Lima <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Volker Braun <[email protected]> wrote:
>> This works for me on Fedora 20. Something must be wrong with your sed. What
>> do you get for
...
>> $ echo 5b5e732cd1eaa01bcfa2b47903ce6ea041a0fae3 | sed 's/[^0-9a-f].*//'
>> 5b5e732cd1eaa01bcfa2b47903ce6ea041a0fae3
>
> Same sed version. Found the culprit:
>
> $ echo $LC_COLLATE
> nn_NO.utf8
> $ echo 5b5e732cd1eaa01bcfa2b47903ce6ea041a0fae3 | sed 's/[^0-9a-f].*//'
> 5b5e732cd1e

This behaviour is apparently known:
http://teaching.idallen.com/net2003/06w/notes/character_sets.txt

A safe alternative that should work independently of LC_COLLATE is this:

$ echo 5b5e732cd1eaa01bcfa2b47903ce6ea041a0fae3 | sed 's/[^[:xdigit:]].*//'

(see http://www.regular-expressions.info/posixbrackets.html)


Thanks,
-- 
Vegard

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