Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!gamiddle
From: gamiddle@watmath.waterloo.edu (Guy Middleton)
Subject: why has DEC (and nobody else) broken sed?
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.164514.12696@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Orbital Mind Control Lasers
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1991 16:45:14 GMT
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Latest cnews has a new script, 'staleness', which causes DEC Ultrix 4.0 sed to
blow up:

RE too long: s/^[^	 ]*[	 ][	 ]*[^	 ]*[	 ][	 ]*\([^	 .]*\)[	 .].*/-o \1/p

So I changed staleness to use awk instead:

exec awk '/^\/expired\// { printf "-o %s\n", $3 }' $NEWSCTL/explist