Eric Engestrom writes:
> On Monday, 2017-03-13 11:56:45 +, Jan Beich wrote:
>
>> Eric Engestrom writes:
>>
>> >> +echo " `$1`" | sed -E \
>> >> +-e 's/[[[:space:]]]+-m[[^[:space:]]]*//g' \
[...]
>> Do you want me to quote the whole function (including whitespace)
>> instead?
>>
Eric Engestrom writes:
>> +echo " `$1`" | sed -E \
>> +-e 's/[[[:space:]]]+-m[[^[:space:]]]*//g' \
>
> These only work for me if I remove the outermost `[]` on each line,
> leaving one pair around `:space:` and one for the set.
> The above line, for instance, becomes:
> -e 's/[[:spa
On Monday, 2017-03-13 11:56:45 +, Jan Beich wrote:
> Eric Engestrom writes:
>
> >> +echo " `$1`" | sed -E \
> >> +-e 's/[[[:space:]]]+-m[[^[:space:]]]*//g' \
> >
> > These only work for me if I remove the outermost `[]` on each line,
> > leaving one pair around `:space:` and one f
On Sunday, 2017-03-12 03:19:14 +, Jan Beich wrote:
> BSD regex library doesn't support extended RE escapes (e.g. \+) and
> shorthand character classes (e.g. \s, \S) and SVR4-style word
> delimiters[1] (on DragonFly and NetBSD). Both GNU and BSD sed support
> -E and -r to enable extended RE but
BSD regex library doesn't support extended RE escapes (e.g. \+) and
shorthand character classes (e.g. \s, \S) and SVR4-style word
delimiters[1] (on DragonFly and NetBSD). Both GNU and BSD sed support
-E and -r to enable extended RE but OS X still lacks -r.
[1] https://www.illumos.org/issues/516
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