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Re: [PATCH] doc: detail inconsistencies in sed word boundary handling
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Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] doc: detail inconsistencies in sed word boundary handling |
Date: |
Mon, 31 Oct 2016 22:49:35 -0500 |
On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> 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.
> +
> address@hidden
> + \< \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
> address@hidden example
Nice. Good to know.