A short time ago, at a computer terminal far, far away, Phil Pennock wrote:
>>    /XXNAMES XXSIG[A-Z][A-Z0-9]*[ \t]+[1-9][0-9]*/
>
>This assumes that all implementations of sed(1) understand \t.  My
>understanding, verified by a quick glance at a Solaris manual page, is
>that the only special like that which most seds handle is \n, in some
>contexts.

I thought the script was using {n,g}awk, not sed?

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