[BusyBox] Outright insanity from gnu sed.

Glenn McGrath bug1 at optushome.com.au
Mon Sep 29 01:04:09 UTC 2003


On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:45:33 -0500
Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> Speaking of which, is there any real world test case where gnu sed's
> "append a newline for N on EOF" behavior is actually depended upon? 
> (I.E. do we really _have_ to implement this?  It's amazingly ugly, and
> those scripts are depending on an admitted and documented bug.)

In practice i doubt it makes any difference.

Looks like your patch is going to be a major improvment, ill be away for
the next 24-48 hours so i may not see your patch straight away, but i
look forward to it.



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