sed problem with ^ and \

[Jonathan_Cook]

Hi there,

We just moved from HP-UX 11 to Linux and I have a behaviour difference 
with a regular expression pattern with sed.

My sed filter is supposed to delete everything in the file that is not 
between <SQL> and </SQL>

        /^\<SQL>/,/\<\/SQL\>/!d

This worked fine on HP-UX but on Linux the ^ doesn't seem to be 
recognised to mean "start of line" and it also doesn't seem to like the 
\ escape before the < or >.

I see in the regexp man page that -lineanchor can enable treatment of ^ 
and $ as start and end of line but I can't see how to get sed to 
recognise that.

Any help gratefully appreciated.

Regards,

Jonathan Cook
Cargill International S.A.
World Trading Unit, IT
14 Chemin De-Normandie
CH-1206 Geneva
 
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