From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 18:57:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATH] sed -e '/RE/r rfile/' needs space in 'r rfile'
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0607082055360.29667@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v7j2oq7h3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> >> in commit 07002287f3e219a16a948a8a6eca0a41162a491f
> >> you cleaned up 'replace ugly and unportable sed invocation' as you said.
> >> Please note, that some SEDs (like HP-UX one) mandate a space between 'r' 
> >> and 'rfile'.
> >
> > Ack. Note that this is yet-another-reason to step away from scripts.
> 
> Are you talking about doing this part in the Makefile in C ;-)?

If it is not portable, then yes ;-)

But of course, you know the spirit this was written in: I had no way to 
test with sed on HP-UX, so I do not know if my change works there. 
However, I know that if it is C -- except for bugs in HP-UX's C compiler 
-- then it works on HP-UX as expected.

Ciao,
Dscho