RFE: upgrade 'sed' RE's to include perlre syntax.
"Linda A. Walsh" <[email protected]>
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Both simple atoms such as "\d" for [0-9] or "\S" for non-space characters are supported in awk and have been added to grep with the -P switch. Would it be possible to add a -P type switch to 'sed' so that pcre compat RE's could be used?