On 12/04/2011 04:00 AM, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> $ echo "const int TIXML_MAJOR_VERSION = 2;" | sed 's/const int >> TIXML_MAJOR_VERSION = \([0-9]+\).*/\1/' >> const int TIXML_MAJOR_VERSION = 2; > > By replacing (sed 's/../../') with (sed -n 's/../../p') you can see > that the regex doesn't match. The cause is that sed recognizes an > "\+" operator, not "+" operator. ...and if you want portability, don't use + or \+ with sed at all to mean "one or more", use \{1,\} instead. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel