Re: Sed failure in contrib/sboxes on MacOS

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi jkl,

> BTW, is this episode yet another nail in the sed coffin?
> Is it another reason not to rely on sed for whatever it is that it's
> doing?  I have no dog in the fight, just asking.  

No, it's a reason to write portable POSIX sed rather than GNU sed.
Other seds are often packaged on Linux for testing:

- http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/tools.html
- https://swtch.com/plan9port/
- https://tools.suckless.org/9base

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.