Date:	Tue, 9 Jun 1998 19:14:03 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
cc:	Josh Rubin <jlrubin AT bway DOT net>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: sed hates me
In-Reply-To:	<19980609000834.AAA6349@ppp100.cartsys.com>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.980609191228.16324W-100000@is>
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On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> sed is not, in general, very open to escape sequences in regexps.

AFAIK, Sed doesn't support escape sequences at all.  Never did.

> In Unix sh or bash, you can do:
> 
> sed `echo -e 's/\b//g'`

Seems that you are using the Bash or echo's feature here.  If so, this 
should also work in the DJGPP ports of these two tools.

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