sed not working
Rein Kadastik
wigry at uninet.ee
Sat Sep 3 04:04:46 PDT 2005
Rein Kadastik wrote:
> Peter Jeremy wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2005-Sep-03 12:27:50 +0300, Rein Kadastik wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Lets take the following sed command (from the ncurses MKlib_gen.sh
>>> script):
>>>
>>> sed -e '/^\([a-z_][a-z_]*\) /s//\1 gen_/'
>>>
>>
> OK got again some extremely strange testing results.
>
> If there is anywhere in the first token (the length does not matter)
> one of the following charakters: t, u, v, w, x, y, the transformation
> fails. Note that with z it works and with a-s it works also.
>
> -- Rein
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Well I have one guess here. In estonian alphabet, the z comes
immediately after s and before t. So as the regex orders [a-z] the
characters t, u, v, w, x, y are left out
How to order the sed to use english alphabet?
Rein
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