Eric Sunshine <sunsh...@sunshineco.com> writes:

> These tests all crash and burn with BSD sed (including Mac OS X) since
> you're not restricting yourself to BRE (basic regular expressions).
> You _could_ request extended regular expressions, which do work on
> those platforms, as well as with GNU sed:
>
>     sed -nEe "/^(author|summary) /p" ...

An obvious way to avoid any RE is to write it as two separate
statements.  As there are repeated invocations of this filtering
in this script, perhaps a helper function can hide this ugliness?
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