Hi jkl, > BTW, is this episode yet another nail in the sed coffin? > Is it another reason not to rely on sed for whatever it is that it's > doing? I have no dog in the fight, just asking.
No, it's a reason to write portable POSIX sed rather than GNU sed. Other seds are often packaged on Linux for testing: - http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/tools.html - https://swtch.com/plan9port/ - https://tools.suckless.org/9base -- Cheers, Ralph.
