Re: [PATCH] doc: detail inconsistencies in sed word boundary handling

Jim Meyering <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.patches
Message-ID <CA+8g5KF5i+9BPpWCBb4KK8W6Mj8ketp-CWU5+yAXybxy4KBS2w@mail.gmail.com> 
On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> wrote:
> * doc/autoconf.texi (Limitations of usual tools): Display a
> table showing where the various syntaxes for word boundaries
> are supported.
...
> +Portable scripts should be aware of the inconsistencies and
> +options for handling word boundaries.
> +
> +@example
> +                \<      \b      [[:<:]]
> +Solaris 10      yes     no      no
> +Solaris XPG4    yes     no      error
> +NetBSD 5.1      no      no      yes
> +FreeBSD 9.1     no      no      yes
> +GNU             yes     yes     error
> +busybox         yes     yes     error
> +@end example

Nice. Good to know.
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