possible sed bug

[Chris Cowsley]

Is my inability to identify the space-stop sequence with sed incompetence, a deliberate feature, a bug fixed in a later version, or a real bug?

 

My version of sed shipped with SuSE 6.4; the man pages are dated 1998-05-07

 

As you can see, I have a workaround, so no answer is needed if you're busy

 

Regards

 

Chris Cowsley

 

#!/bin/sh

 

text=mystuffhere
echo $text
date +%Y.%m.%d\ %a\ %X\ .
date +%Y.%m.%d\ %a\ %X\ . | sed s/\ ./\ $text/
date +%Y.%m.%d\ %a\ %X\ . | sed s/\ \./\ $text/
date +%Y.%m.%d\ %a\ %X\ . | sed "s/ ./ $text/"
date +%Y.%m.%d\ %a\ %X\ , | sed s/,/$text/
date +%Y.%m.%d\ %a\ %X\ , | sed s/,/$text/ >>data.txt