[Surfraw-devel] OS X sed incompatibility

[Kyle Isom]

Hello Keith,

I'll give this a stab tonight. Talking with Jason confirms my suspicion
that awk(1) might be a better fit here.

Cheers,
Kyle

On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Keith Smiley <keithbsmiley at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
> --
> Keith Smiley
>
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