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Re: sed usage in autoheader


From: Bruce Korb
Subject: Re: sed usage in autoheader
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 07:14:51 -0800

Johan Danielsson wrote:
> 
> Autoheader does `sed "s/[^/]*$//"', which doesn't work with Cray sed,
> and Cray claims this is in compliance with POSIX. Is this correct?

It is irrelevant.  If true and Cray changes, there will still be
versions floating around wherein it is broken.  More cruft for
the UNIX folklore:  never, ever use substitution separator chars
inside of the substitution expressions, period.  (If you want portability.)



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