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Re: [PATCH] Use sed -E to escape variables in auto-load directories.
- From: John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD dot org>
- To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 15:20:34 -0800
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use sed -E to escape variables in auto-load directories.
- References: <20181130225424.13537-1-jhb@FreeBSD.org> <87bm66180f.fsf@igel.home>
On 11/30/18 3:05 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Nov 30 2018, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
>> Not all sed implementations support alternation via \| in the default
>> regular expressions. However, POSIX ERE available via -E do support
>> these.
>
> Not all sed implementations support -E.
Hmm, the GNU sed manpage on a random Ubuntu box I have claims -E is part of
POSIX, but indeed I can't find it as part of POSIX. I'll rework this to use
basic regular expressions instead.
--
John Baldwin