On Nov 15, 2007 7:09 PM, David Kastrup <dak@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Er, I suppose -- if you are acquainted with that particular shell > > variable syntax (I suspect knowledge of sed is far more widespread). > > sed is rather bad with regard to portability. If you take a look at > the respective portability section in the autoconf file, it is almost > longer than that of Bourne shells. I don't think that's really a fair characterization -- almost all of the autoconf sed portability caveats concern weird corner cases in the dusty corners of the language (and some are "common" issues with other tools, i.e., avoiding ^ and $ inside of regexp groups). For typical straightforward usage, there seems little problem. [The main portability problems I've actually _noticed_ with sed are the "-e" versus ";" issue and what happens with "\n" in various contexts...] -Miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
