[BusyBox] BusyBox SED bugs reproducible at will.

Benjamin Smith bsmith at 14inverleith.freeserve.co.uk
Mon Mar 18 13:39:03 UTC 2002


On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 02:41:02PM -0500, Serge Caron wrote:
>   echo "12345" | sed -e "s/[[:space:]]*/,/"
>   ,12345 (BUG!!!)

This isn't a bug as GNU sed produces the same output.

>   echo "12345" | sed -e "s/[[:space:]]*/,/g"
>   (Infinite loop :()

Output from GNU: ,1,2,3,4,5

> 3) BusyBox sed adds a newline at the end of the input stream
> 
>      echo -n "12345" | sed -e "s/3/c/" >> junk
>      echo -n "12345" | sed -e "s/3/c/" >> junk
>      cat junk
>    12c45
>    12c45

GNU sed does not add a newline.

-- 
Benjamin Smith <bsmith at vtrl.co.uk, benjaminsmith86 at yahoo.co.uk>
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