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Re: sed


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: sed
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:47:52 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2007-02-12)

* Stephane Chazelas wrote on Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 09:33:31AM CET:
>
> printf will exist if you're in a POSIX environment. To my
> knowledge, no printf implementation has problems with:
> 
> printf '%s\n' "$VAR"

$ x=`perl -e 'print "x"x2060 . "\n"'`
$ /bin/printf %s\\n $x
Bus Error - core dumped
$ config.guess
sparc-sun-solaris2.7

There is a patch for this bug for most Solaris versions.

Cheers,
Ralf




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