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From: Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] p9p sed vs linux sed
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 10:23:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOEdRO1qFzKz3jUK1PaPOW8mnrJc823YRSd7-xGTcL8zZOKC-w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150812081302.GA886@polynum.com>

> From the POSIX description (used here as some reference), when a
> line is entered in the pattern space, the trailing new line is
> discarded. When the pattern space is written to stdout it seems
> that implicitely the new line is restored---the POSIX description
> says that the input shall be a text file; and ISTR that with an
> editor, a newline is entered to the last line because a text file
> is considered to be an array of newline terminated lines.
>
> This means that it is a grey zone and depends on things that are not all
> explicitely stated and that the p9 sed(1) is not, from the/some
> specification, at fault.

Thanks for some explanation!
I now understand a bit more.
It's a pity, anyhow.

Ruda



  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-12  8:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-12  7:39 Rudolf Sykora
2015-08-12  7:48 ` Ingo Krabbe
2015-08-12  7:57   ` Rudolf Sykora
2015-08-12  8:13     ` tlaronde
2015-08-12  8:23       ` Rudolf Sykora [this message]
2015-08-12 11:35       ` Ingo Krabbe
2015-08-12 12:39         ` Rudolf Sykora
2015-08-12 13:47           ` lucio
2015-08-12 14:22             ` Rudolf Sykora
2015-08-12 14:29               ` Ingo Krabbe
2015-08-12  7:58   ` Ingo Krabbe
2015-08-14 14:59 ` Alexander Kapshuk
2015-08-15  2:27   ` erik quanstrom

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