Bug 169608

Summary: sed doesnt handle octal constants correctly
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: JW <ohtmvyyn>
Component: sedAssignee: Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description JW 2005-09-30 07:39:06 UTC 
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Description of problem:
sed doesnt interpret octal constants correctly

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sed-4.1.4

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.run: sed 's/\047//g'
2.type: shdasjgsds'asdasdhjsahd
3.
  

Actual Results:  shdasjgsds'asdasdhjsahd

Expected Results:  shdasjgsdsasdasdhjsahd

Additional info:

However, the following works as expected:
   sed 's/\x27//g'

I wouldn't expect that octal constants would have been deprecated because the cost to implement them correctly is zero.  After all, IP addresses can use octal!
Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2005-09-30 08:03:41 UTC 
Please read sed documentation, especially:
GNU Extensions for Escapes in Regular Expressions
page.
\x27 is a GNU sed extension, and so is \o047.