Hi, The problem popped up in the frame of my attempts to switch to utf8. I opened a uxterm window with the command: LC_TYPE=he_IL.UTF8 uxterm -sb -sl 500 -xrm 'xterm*pointerShape: hand2' -geometry 100x40 -bg grey90 -fg black -fn '-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso10646-1'&
and tried to execute a script involving sed. In its simplest form, it looks like: cat v | start-end2 where v is: 21:45 Les elephants d'Hannibal 22:35 360? Le reportage GEO 22:35 360? Le reportage GEO 22:36 Les metallos de Chicago 22:36 Les metallos de Chicago 21:45 Les elephants d'Hannibal and start-end2 is #!/bin/sh sed "s/\([0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]\)\(.* \)\([0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]\).*/\1-\3 $1 \2/" The big space in the script (2 tabs) corresponds to the two tabs between the two columns of v In the uxterm window, the output was: 21:45-22:35 Les elephants d'Hannibal ? Le reportage GEO 22:35 360? Le reportage GEO 22:36 Les metallos de Chicago 22:36-21:45 Les metallos de Chicago Instead of the normal output (in the xterm window): 21:45-22:35 Les elephants d'Hannibal 22:35-22:36 360? Le reportage GEO 22:36-21:45 Les metallos de Chicago sed version: GNU sed version 4.1.5 Should I update/replace my sed or use some command-line option to make it behave similarly in the two environements ? Thanks, Avraham -- Please avoid sending to this address attachments in excess of 2MByte, or any Excell or Powerpoint attachments. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]