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Re: maint.mk: sed portability
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: maint.mk: sed portability |
Date: |
Wed, 23 May 2012 23:25:09 -0700 |
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On 05/23/2012 02:23 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> + | sed -n '/^\[GNUPG:\] ERRSIG /{s///;s/ .*//p;q;}')
The use of {...;...} isn't portable in sed scripts. You
have to write it something like this instead, I'm afraid:
| sed -n '/^\[GNUPG:\] ERRSIG /{
s///
s/ .*//p
q
}'
except of course this can't easily be done in a Makefile.
This restriction is in POSIX-2008 and I've been burned by
it with some less-commonly-used sed implementations
(Interix or something like that....). Dunno if this
matters in a 'maint' rule, but Akim's report was
about 'sed' portability, so I thought I'd mention it.