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Subject: Re: portability of sed's \{0,1\}?
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> Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 14:51:06 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert AT twinsun DOT com>
> 
>    I don't see any work-arounds suggested for these problems.
>    Does anyone know how do you express \(foo\)\{0,1\} portably?
> 
> There's no simple, general substitute for \(foo\)\{0,1\}, but you can
> generally get the effect that you want by using multiple sed commands.

That's what I thought to use as fallback.  Thanks for confirming that.