[PATCH 0 of 1] tests: fix sed expression for BSD sed

[Christian Ebert]

Hi David,

* David Champion on Saturday, May 01, 2010 at 13:46:40 -0500
> * On 01 May 2010, Christian Ebert wrote: 
>>>>> BSD sed expects a newline right after '\' in expressions like
>>>>> 
>>>>> Wrapping the line right after '\' fixes the test-keyword test on FreeBSD
>>>>> here:
>>> 
>>> FWIW none of them works on Solaris:
>> 
>> Thanks. I'm gonna propose a fix, probably in python.
> 
> Sed is a bundle of nonportability, but basic awk/nawk is generally quite
> portable.
> 
> awk '{print} NR==1 {print "foo"}' a >a.tmp
> 
> Tested on OSX (BSD awk), Linux (GNU awk), and OpenSolaris (System V
> awk).

This crossed with my python proposal which seems to be queued by
Matt. I wasn't sure about how portable awk would be, but you're
right for the basic commands. Thanks for taking the time looking
into it.

c
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