Re: sed bug?

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 06:55:52PM +1300, Brent Wood wrote:
> cat tmp.txt | sed 's/NaN/0.0/g' > $OUTFILE
> 
> This worked until the input file had some unusually long lines (about
> 8000+ characters) when sed seems to truncate the output lines, which lose
> the line feed at the end so I get lines with 250,000+ chars.

I beleive GNU sed doesn't have any such limitation, at least versions
3.02, 3.02.80, 4.* which I have met.

Which version of sed are you using?  What does "sed --version" answer?
If this doesn't give a you a version number, you are probably using
a non-GNU version of sed.  You can complain at your vendor.

If you are not using GNU sed, you are welcome to grab the source code
from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sed/sed-4.0.7.tar.gz

HTH,
        Stepan Kasal