Hi Stepan, * Stepan Kasal wrote on Tue, May 23, 2006 at 08:42:34PM CEST: > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 07:08:43PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > Conversely to the second half of the paragraph, can we be certain that > > sed 's|a\|b||' > > > > does what I think it should do, namely remove a literal `a|b' from the > > code, and not invoke alternation? Or should a different delimiter be > > preferred for safety? > > I read the Posix definition right now, and I can confirm that it > seems to define this meaning. (I don't know anything about actual > implementations.)
I also think it should be interpreted that way. However, reality and standards being only the same in theory, I already found | GNU sed version 4.0.7 which does this: $ echo 'a|b' | sed 's|a\|b|x|' x|b :( At least it's fixed in 4.1.2. Cheers, and thanks for the prompt response! Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
