On Feb 07 2020, Eric Sunshine wrote: > On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 10:09 AM SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> macOS 'sed', that's what I was missing :) >> >> sed -n 's/^\(.*\) \+annotate:bugreport\[include\].* ::$/ "\1",/p' | sort >> >> and the 'sed' included in macOS apparently interprets that '\+' >> differently than GNU 'sed', and as a result won't match anything. > > More generally, this would be a problem with any 'sed' of BSD lineage. > >> FWIW, that '\+' doesn't seem to be necessary, though, and after >> removing it the resulting generated array looked good to me [...] > > A reasonable replacement for "<SP>\+" would be "<SP><SP>*" (where <SP> > represents 'space'). Another problem with that regexp is that it contains two adjacent repetitions matching the same character. When there are two or more spaces before "annotate:" all but the last of them can be matched by either '\(.*\)' or ' \+'. To fix that '\(.*\)' needs to be modified to not match a trailing space. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."