From: Junio C Hamano Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 23:31:47 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] t8005: avoid grep on non-ASCII data Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Eric Sunshine 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. As there are repeated invocations of this filtering in this script, perhaps a helper function can hide this ugliness?