19 Oct
2017
19 Oct
'17
8:33 p.m.
Random832 <random832(a)fastmail.com> wrote:
|On Wed, Oct 18, 2017, at 19:03, Doug McIlroy wrote:
|>> But mind you, in preparation of this email i found a bug in
|>> Busybox sed(1) which simply echoes nothing for the above.
|>
|> I assume that * is a typo for - . If so, sed did just what
|> -n tells it to--no printing except as called for by p or P.
|
|Or, you know, l (the letter ell). Which busybox sed appears to not
|support at all, rather than somehow misapplying -n to it.
The letter l, yes. But it does not fail either, so it knows about
it, talking version 1.27.something here.
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)