Re: sed does not support +

Davide Brini <[email protected]> Sat, 21 Jul 2012 20:54:22 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.utils.bugs
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On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 15:18:07 +0200, Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> wrote:

> Il 21/07/2012 11:32, Zhonghua Zhu ha scritto:
> > I heard some say original sed does not support +, GNU sed does.
> > 
> > http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html
> > 
> > But it does not.
> > 
> > So is there anything wrong with me ? or is it a bug?
> 
> The page says:
> 
> The original sed did not support the "+" metacharacter. GNU sed does if
> you use the "-r" command line option, which enables extended regular
> expressions.

Or using "\+" when in BRE (ie, normal) mode.

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D.