Bug 169608 - sed doesnt handle octal constants correctly
Summary: sed doesnt handle octal constants correctly
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: sed
Version: 4
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-09-30 07:39 UTC by JW
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-09-30 08:03:41 UTC
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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.
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