-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Simon Josefsson on 5/27/2009 4:33 AM: > But adding --posix makes it fail: > > j...@mocca:~/src/libidn master$ echo 'version 2 '|sed --posix -e 's/version > \(2\|2\.1\)\([ ,]\)/version 3\2/g'
You are using \|, which is undefined in BRE, and therefore (correctly) rejected as a non-POSIX extension when using --posix with newer sed. It was a bug in earlier sed that \| was not identified as non-portable. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkodIJkACgkQ84KuGfSFAYDRkwCgtO43fTXDwMxrfltMRHQM8zDc /SQAn19SUWM/+1rb9ihyy1mcfFflSkGY =yvCd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----