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From: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Question about sed on different systems
Date: 23 Jan 1997 04:45:29 GMT
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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James H. Haynes (haynes@cats.ucsc.edu) wrote:
: I've just asked this on comp.std.unix to find out what is canonically
: correct. Meanwhile maybe someone can explain the following
: echo -n "AX" | sed -e 's/X//'
: produces an A on NetBSD and nothing on SunOS 4.1.4 I'm guessing the
: difference is something in the C library, as I compiled sed from the
: GNU sources on both platforms. echo -n "AX" > foo produces an identical
: file on both (verified by od -bc foo).
I just tried this on SunOS 4.1.4, NetBSD/i386 1.2, and NetBSD/i386 1.0A.
The output in all three cases was nothing.
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