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vax@carolina.rr.com wrote:
> >Synopsis:       sed's "regular expressions" suck

> sed's "regular expressions" are downright embarassing.
> There are no alternations "|", no "+", no '?', not much of anything.

I think you missed the parameter -E.
 
> >How-To-Repeat:

[examples]

They'd work, if you used -E.

> >Fix:
> Incidentally, I found this while trying to port Linux's "killall", from
> their psmisc SRPM.

We have pkill just like Solaris.

> Their sed handles regexps just fine.

"Their" /bin/sh is bash. So what? If there's an open standard which
says that sed should use regular expressions even with no parameters,
that's an argument.

-- 
Christian