Package: sed Version: 4.1.5-1 Severity: minor As far as I know, GNU sed (and other sed implementations) allow a semicolon to be used instead of a newline character, as a command terminator. This feature is pretty important, since without the semicolon alternative all complex sed one-liners must be written with a slew of -e options.
However, the possibility of using semicolons in not mentioned on sed's man page nor in its info document. Instead, both insist that every command must be on its own line. Some examples in the info document use semicolons, but not everybody reads just those examples that do. In my opinion, this is a severe bug in the documentation of sed. Interestingly, many other implementations of sed have exactly the same problem: semicolon works as a command terminator, but the documentation fails to mention that. Hopefully GNU sed will be better in this aspect. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686 Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages sed depends on: ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries sed recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
