"L" == Liviu Daia <Liviu(_dot_)Daia(_at_)imar(_dot_)ro> writes:
L> Well, I wouldn't rule out that possibility, some OSes are known to
L> have badly broken seds. This is the case f.i. with Solaris, IRIX
L> and OSF/1. It works fine for me with GNU sed version 2.05.
That's it! It works with gnused but not the sed from Solaris 7 :-<
L> with GNU sed. Can somebody else please confirm this? It also
L> seems to work with your other examples, and the logic of the
L> command seems ok too.
Thanks for your help.
Tony