On Apr 5, 2001, Raja R Harinath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Robert Boehne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> sed 's/^[^\.]*\.o://' | tr '
> Try changing that to
> sed 's/^.*\.o://' | tr '
> This should be safe. I don't see why the original tried to avoid
> '.'s. The regexp is limited to the first ':' -- so the '.*' cannot
> swallow any more of the line.
Perhaps `[^:]*', just to be on the safe side?
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