Re: OpenBSD sed vs GNU sed

2009-12-25 Thread Matthew Szudzik
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 12:59:29PM -0500, Hugo Villeneuve wrote: > I had been using gnu sed for a while and encountered this issue > going with OpenBSD. ... > It's a cute work around. My point is: if a label can't contain > semicolons, why support "tlabel;" and not "t;"? I don't understand > the lo

Re: OpenBSD sed vs GNU sed

2009-12-25 Thread Hugo Villeneuve
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 02:32:24AM +, Matthew Szudzik wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 08:37:06PM -0500, Hugo Villeneuve wrote: > > OpenBSD's sed technicaly supports command concatation with ";" on > > the command line but it breaks "branch" without label. Which correctly I should have left mo

Re: OpenBSD sed vs GNU sed

2009-12-21 Thread Matthew Szudzik
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 08:37:06PM -0500, Hugo Villeneuve wrote: > OpenBSD's sed technicaly supports command concatation with ";" on > the command line but it breaks "branch" without label. Which correctly Read the caveat at the end of the sed man page: "The use of semicolons to separate multipl

OpenBSD sed vs GNU sed

2009-12-21 Thread Hugo Villeneuve
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 07:22:26PM +0100, ropers wrote: > > Matthew Szudzik wrote: > > I would like to learn to use sed, however, I did not find that the man page > > was sufficient as a tutorial. I was not able to find any sed tutorials that > > were consistent with OpenBSD's variation. > > I've