[nylug-talk] need sed help

[Peter C. Norton]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 02:05:58PM -0400, Marco Romeny wrote:
> On 4/3/07, Marco Romeny <marco.romeny at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Shouldn't that be reported as a bug to sed?  I would expect + to be
> > one of the regext controlchars...
> > Off to bugzilla!
> 
> Ohh..  and on a mac  echo xxx+++|sed 's/x\+//'
> returns xx++
> 
> I guess on mac one have to do 's/x\{1,\}//'

This seems to hold true on netbsd and freebsd as well. 

*sigh*

-Peter

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