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Article #1606"sed" supports comments, but this is undocumented
From: Guy Harris
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1986 21:19
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1986 21:19
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Index: man/man1/sed.1 4.3BSD
Description:
"sed" supports comments in scripts. Any line containing an
option string of white space (blanks or tabs) followed by a
"#" is a comment and will be ignored by "sed".
Furthermore, if the *first* comment line is of the form
#n
the "sed" script will be executed as if the "-n" flag were
specified.
Repeat-By:
Check out "fcomp" in "sed0.c".
Fix:
Document it. (S5's "sed" supports the "#n" feature, so it's
probably been in there since V7; S5 even documents it.)
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Guy Harris
{ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!pyramid!decwrl!sun!guy From: guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd Subject: "sed" supports comments, but this is undocumented Message-ID: <5671@sun.uucp> Date: Wed, 30-Jul-86 17:19:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sun.5671 Posted: Wed Jul 30 17:19:00 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Jul-86 21:44:23 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 22