meta char and sed

kaz2100 · 02-02-2007, 01:12 PM

Hi,

I do not believe this story, but...

"sed" on Macintosh OSX does not support "\t" as a meta character.

And somebody told me it is version dependent.

QUESTION is
Where can I find supported meta character set vs sed version table?

man (info) page and www.gnu.org do not mention such a basic issue.

Happy Penguins!

MensaWater · 02-02-2007, 01:21 PM

Man pages for GNU are not likely to mention OSX limitations. The GNU version of utilities often have capabilities added to them over their UNIX cousins. Even the UNIX variants don't all do things the same way. You'd need to read the man page of OSX sed to find out what it does. Even then its not likely to say "unlike Linux we don't do \t".

kaz2100 · 02-02-2007, 02:21 PM

Hi,

Thanks...

I've read OSX man and info, without any success.....

Happy Penguins!

MensaWater · 02-02-2007, 02:57 PM

My point being that if it doesn't say it DOES \t then it probably does NOT. man pages tell you what the command does - not what it doesn't.