Re: sed numbered fields don't start from parenthesis

Eric Blake <[email protected]> Wed, 05 Nov 2014 17:02:08 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.utils.bugs
Organization	Red Hat, Inc.
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 11/02/2014 01:32 AM, blind Pete wrote:

>> Sorry, but the behavior you see is mandated by POSIX, and not a bug.
> 
> I was completely wrong.  
> 
> Could the man pages me made more obvious by adding a line like, 
> "Note: only matched sections are processed, others are passed though
> unchanged.".  

Where in the man page are you proposing adding it?  But I already see
this in 'man sed':


       s/regexp/replacement/
              Attempt  to match regexp against the pattern space.  If
success‐
              ful,  replace  that  portion  matched  with  replacement.

where the "replace that portion matched" implies that the portion not
matched is preserved unchanged.

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