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From: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Subject: sed 1.02 - Bug with { } ?
Message-ID: <203@titania.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 3 Sep 89 21:00:44 GMT
Reply-To: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (latbten:@@z6edNusXr7U:2691:6::/sol/la/tbt/en:/bin/csh)
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK
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I hope this is the right place for this.  Sed version 1.02 with the line:

sed -e "/^$logname:/{s/^[^:]*:[^:]*:[^:]*:[^:]*:\([^,:;]*\).*"'$'"/\1/" -e "q"
-e "}" -e "d"

prints the first line of the file instead of an extract from the line
beginning with $logname (this is from rn/Pnews.header).  If you change it to

sed -e "/^$logname:/{" -e "s/^[^:]*:[^:]*:[^:]*:[^:]*:\([^,:;]*\).*"'$'"/\1/"
-e "q" -e "}" -e "d"

it prints the extract from the first line instead of the required line, so it
looks like the { } are being ignored.

Rob
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