On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 04:18:55PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > No, the “certainly did” and “worked fine” bits are wrong. > > And that's not just me, we've had users report it, Philip Hands saw it > as well. So no it did *NOT* work (in the specific case where it actually > matters).
Yes, turns out sed doesn't do \a, but it does work if \a in sed is replaced by [[:cntrl:]]. Doesn't make the line any prettier. > Well that's the case in Debian right now, even in d-i! So your “busybox > head does not appear to support it.” was wrong (that happens, no big > deal), and I'm not so fond of being called a liar when I report test > results for stuff I actually checked. Well the version I looked at didn't have it, so apparently it was slightly more than 3 years old. It is a recent addition. > Anyway, back to getting the next d-i release ready now that this issue > is fixed. Yep. -- Len Sorensen