From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 14:06:22 GMT
Subject: Re: Help a sed noob
Message-ID: <85abt7gzs1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <20070804135630.GC1605@lapse.madduck.net>

martin f krafft <madduck@madduck.net> writes:

> also sprach Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de> [2007.08.04.1426 +0200]:
>> s// is "match last regexp, so s/// is "match last regexp and replace with 
>> empty string.
>
> This fact is not in the manpage, AFAICT, at least not on Debian
> systems.

IIRC, this is a traditional _ed_ feature.  I don't think it has ever
been a traditional part of _sed_, but maybe some implementations have
adopted this usage.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum