Re: PCRE mode for sed

[John Cowan]

Bob Proulx scripsit:

> > But even if not,... any OS is free to choose then whether to compile sed
> > with PCRE or not.
> 
> True.  But then scripts using it could never rely upon the feature.

How about packaging a psed that always uses PCREs?  That way, there's
no problem with standardization:  sed is sed, psed is not.

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