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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: sed command behavior suspect
Message-ID: <2846@kappl.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 8 Jul 89 06:06:20 GMT
References: <376@proexam.UUCP>
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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glen@proexam.UUCP (Glen Brydon) writes:
\...	sed 's/.*/&/p;d'
\
\). The bsd version does print all the lines as expected, but the system V
\one does not. Also, the latest bsd version on our sun os does not either.

I say it should print every line indeed; apparently the System V version
of sed merely sets a flag "this line is to be printed later", which gets
cleared by the `d' operation. The following does work as expected:

	sed 's/.*/&/w foo
	d'
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