Re: RFE: upgrade 'sed' RE's to include perlre syntax.

Il 22/07/2014 10:24, Linda A. Walsh ha scritto:
> 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?

Yes, indeed part of the work is already done and part of the GNU sed
tarball (search for REG_PERL).  Though the option was -R, not -P.

Paolo