Re: Trouble with m4 on linux

2020-07-29 Thread Eric Blake
On 7/17/20 7:57 PM, M.R.P. zensky wrote: Hello I am on linux. M4 is installed. I try to define a macro in M4 by typing M4 —define (test,Hello) I just get the message “bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(` Do I need to install or setup some other program than m4 for it to work? What a

regexp curly braces do not work

2020-07-29 Thread Hyunho Cho
m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.18 Operating System: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-33-generic Architecture: x86-64 sh$ m4 <<\@ patsubst(`hello', `ll', `XX') patsubst(`hello', `l+', `XX') patsubst(`hello', `l\{2\}', `XX') patsubst(`hello', `l{2}', `XX') @ heXXo heXXo hello hello