Re: [PATCH 1/2] t8005: avoid grep on non-ASCII data
On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:
>
>> These tests all crash and burn with BSD sed (including Mac OS X) since
>> you're not restricting yourself to BRE (basic regular expressions).
>> You _could_ request extended regular expressions, which do work on
>> those platforms, as well as with GNU sed:
>>
>> sed -nEe "/^(author|summary) /p" ...
>
> An obvious way to avoid any RE is to write it as two separate
> statements.
Yes, that's even better; now I feel stupid for not thinking of it.
Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>