Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote:
> >> sed -r -e 's/-[0-9].*//'
> >
> > Nust a note: sed has no option -r and 's/(.*)-[0-9].*/\1/' is a "garbled"
> > command. A corrected version would be 's/\(.*\)-[0-9].*/\1/'
> >
> > So the main question is: why do you use a non-existing option?
> >
>
> # sed --help
>
> Usage: sed [OPTION]... {script-only-if-no-other-script} [input-file]...
>
> ----- >8 snip
>
> -r, --regexp-extended
> use extended regular expressions in the script.
>
> ----- >8 snip
You seem to miss the fact that you are using gsed instead of sed.
using -r makes scripts non-portable.
Jörg
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