Hello Bruno, * Bruno Haible wrote on Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 02:39:43PM CET:
> ! | sed -e '/^CVS$/d' -e '/[/]CVS$/d' \ > ! -e '/^ChangeLog$/d' -e '/[/]ChangeLog$/d' \ > ! -e '/^COPYING$/d' -e '/[/]COPYING$/d' \ > ! -e '/^README$/d' -e '/[/]README$/d' \ > ! -e '/^TEMPLATE$/d' \ > ! -e '/^TEMPLATE-TESTS$/d' \ > ! -e '/~$/d' \ As noted in <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Limitations-of-Usual-Tools.html#index-g_t_0040command_007bsed_007d-1292> this isn't POSIX-conforming. For example: $ echo | sed -e '/[/]CVS$/d' sed: 1: "/[/]CVS$/d": RE error: [ ] imbalance or syntax error Yes, I know that nobody really uses gnulib-tool on this Cray. But backslash-escaping is similarly easy and guaranteed to work on POSIX-conformant systems. So here's a proposed patch. (I bet I mixed up the meaning of conforming/-ant again now...) Cheers, Ralf 2007-01-09 Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * gnulib-tool (func_all_modules): Use POSIX conforming escaping in sed script. Index: gnulib-tool =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/gnulib/gnulib/gnulib-tool,v retrieving revision 1.210 diff -u -r1.210 gnulib-tool --- gnulib-tool 9 Jan 2007 13:44:33 -0000 1.210 +++ gnulib-tool 9 Jan 2007 19:44:37 -0000 @@ -819,10 +819,10 @@ (cd "$local_gnulib_dir" && find modules -type f -print | sed -e 's,^modules/,,' -e 's,\.diff$,,') fi } \ - | sed -e '/^CVS$/d' -e '/[/]CVS$/d' \ - -e '/^ChangeLog$/d' -e '/[/]ChangeLog$/d' \ - -e '/^COPYING$/d' -e '/[/]COPYING$/d' \ - -e '/^README$/d' -e '/[/]README$/d' \ + | sed -e '/^CVS$/d' -e '/\/CVS$/d' \ + -e '/^ChangeLog$/d' -e '/\/ChangeLog$/d' \ + -e '/^COPYING$/d' -e '/\/COPYING$/d' \ + -e '/^README$/d' -e '/\/README$/d' \ -e '/^TEMPLATE$/d' \ -e '/^TEMPLATE-TESTS$/d' \ -e '/~$/d' \
