On Mar 31, 2007, at 22:53, Yves de Champlain wrote:

Any reason reinplace does not call sed with -E (extended grep patterns) ?

Wouldn't most of the existing invocations of reinplace break if we change that now?

Le 07-04-01 à 03:02, Cédric Luthi a écrit :

On 1 avr. 07, at 08:03, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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Wouldn't most of the existing invocations of reinplace break if we change that now?

I'd say no. Replacing sed -E by sed would break all those who actually use extended syntax but probably not the other way round. I don't think there are non-extended expressions that would fail as an extended expressions.

There might be some breakage indeed, but certainly not a lot. But such a change would also have to be syncchronized with a release, so I was mostly wondering why in the first place was it chosen not to use it ? On the other hand, maybe some grepper could translate that in 'basic mode' for me ? sed -E 's|\$\(DESTDIR\)[[:space:]]+\$\(|\$\(DESTDIR\)\$\(|g' Now that is the first level question. yves

Le 07-04-01 à 10:05, Elias Pipping a écrit :

On Apr 1, 2007, at 3:39 PM, Yves de Champlain wrote:

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On the other hand, maybe some grepper could translate that in 'basic mode' for me ?

sed -E 's|\$\(DESTDIR\)[[:space:]]+\$\(|\$\(DESTDIR\)\$\(|g'

sed 's|\$(DESTDIR)[[:space:]][[:space:]]*\$(|FOO|g'

changes

$(DESTDIR) $(

to

FOO

if that is what you want.

Thanks a lot yves