[Surfraw-devel] OS X sed incompatibility

[Keith Smiley]

After installing surfraw on OS X either from source or from the [homebrew
formula][1] retrieving the list of elvi with `surfraw -elvi` only outputs
` GLOBAL ELVI:`.

After debugging this a little bit the problem is with this line:

```
sed -n 's/^.*elvis:[  ]\+\(.*\)$/\1/p' $(find "$dir" ! -type d ! -type l !
-name '*~' | sort)
```

This pattern is incompatible with the version of BSD sed installed on OS X.
To fix this the command would have to be:

```
sed -n -E 's/^.*elvis:[  ]+(.*)$/\1/p' $(find "$dir" ! -type d ! -type l !
-name '*~' | sort)
```

Which I'm sure isn't compatible with other OS'. Any ideas how we can solve
this and not break compatibility?


Thanks!


[1]:
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/surfraw.rb
Related:
https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/surfraw-devel/2011-October/000968.html


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Keith Smiley
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