Re: sed problem with ^ and \

[Bob Proulx]

Bob Proulx wrote:
> address@hidden wrote:
> > ... doesn't recognise ^ to mean "start of line" or $ to mean "end of 
> > line". I found a similar issue later with the pattern below (supposed to 
> > trim spaces and nulls from the end of lines) not working because it 
> > didn't understand the $. 

It occurred to me that you may be experiencing a problem with locales.
To see the locale you are currently running use the 'locale' command.

  locale

To override all locale settings and force the C (aka POSIX) locale set
LC_ALL.

  export LC_ALL=C

Then please try your failing sed case again.  If that solves the
problem then the problem would be related to locales.

Bob