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Re: sed does not support +


From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: sed does not support +
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 15:18:07 +0200
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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. The "+" means "one or more matches".

Paolo



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