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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: bb sed 'N' broken
From:       Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2013-07-21 20:10:34
Message-ID: 201307212210.34276.vda.linux () googlemail ! com
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On Sunday 21 July 2013 10:19, Timo Teras wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 09:02:23 +0300
> Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi> wrote:
> 
> > I "accidentally" noticed that some sed scripts perl configure does
> > take a long time with bb sed, but works fast with gnu sed. So I
> > tracked the issue down.
> > 
> > Basically:
> > sed -n -e ': testcont; /\\$/{ =; N; b testcont }'
> > 
> > With the input:
> > --cut--
> > this is a regular line
> > 
> > and line with \
> > continuations 
> > 
> > more regular lines
> > 
> > --cut--
> > 
> > I expect to only get one output, '3' which the line number of the line
> > having the trailing '\' that should match. And this is what I indeed
> > get with GNU sed.
> 
> The following fixes it. Seems GNU sed has GNU extension flags to set
> REG_NEWLINE if wanted, but it defaults off.

Applied, thanks.
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