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Subject: Re: [9front] Re: sed: fix moving '^' match
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Quoth hiro <23hiro@gmail.com>:
> the following stops working, which is WRONG. i.e. bsd is wrong, and
> GNU is wrong. while Plan9 ed and sed is right as usual.
> 
> echo abababacab | sed 's/^ab//g'

can you explain why this should behave differently from:

	echo bacabababab | sed 's/ab$//g'