Re: sed segfaults

[Paolo Bonzini]

> You say 's/\'.*\'/foo/' which wouldn't be correct under bash.

Yes, you're right, I meant to use double quotes.

> > The correct behavior is to output fooxxx. \'.*\' means the end of
pattern
> > space, followed by zero or more characters, followed by the end of
pattern
> > space -- so the end of pattern space.  (The current version BTW is
4.0.8).
>
> I've missed that \' has a defined meaning, thank you for telling me.
> So the correct output is "xxxfoo", right?
>
> And that's what the newest regex does.


No, fooxxx if I am not missing anything obvious.  It matches the *end* of
pattern space.

Paolo