Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 25.02.2009 22:25:
>
>> The sed scripts in the more important parts of scripted Porcelains avoid
>> multiple commands on a single line concatenated with ";" mostly by inertia
>> on my side, but it was acquired exactly from this kind of portability
>> mess. IIRC, AIX's was the worst offender. It also got "/A/../B/ { ... }"
>> wrong in earlier versions.
>
> I'm a bit confused now. Are you saying that "git-submodule.sh" should
> avoid the multiple lines in sed (which work in AIX 4.3.3)?
No, I understand J6t's comment:
>>> I don't know... Let's see: My AIX 4.3.3 sed understands it if it is not
>>> all on a single line, and that says a lot. Specifically, I tried this:
to mean that this is bad:
sed -e 'a;b;c;d;e'
while this works
sed -e '
a
b
c
d
e
'
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