On 4/19/23, G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > We still won't be able to support Solaris sed, in either its /usr/bin or > /usr/xpg4/bin forms. Unless we change the way GNU troff processes `sy` > arguments, we will forever need a non-standard extension to sed(1) to > pull of this sort of tomfoolery.
It depends on how tomfoolish you want to get. It should be possible to get the same results -- at the cost of either an additional temp file, or an additional call to "pdfinfo" -- by invoking sed twice, once to extract each parameter. I don't see much need to worry about Solaris 10 or old macOSes. And even Solaris 11 isn't urgent, since this pipeline hasn't worked there since it was introduced. But if the need for two lines in pdfpic*temporary-file, which can't be output portably by a single sed invocation, is the only tomfoolery blocking Solaris 11, it seems like fixing that gives you the other two for free.
