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bug#28140: Here is a possible bug in documentation for 4.4


From: Assaf Gordon
Subject: bug#28140: Here is a possible bug in documentation for 4.4
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 21:28:22 -0600
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On 2017-10-12 12:31 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote:
On 18/08/17 09:34 AM, bamber ward wrote:
manual 4.4
section 7-8
  sed -E ':x {N ; s/\n/ /g ; s/(.{40,40})/\1\n/ ; /\n/!bx ; P ;D}'
does not work as described.

I'm thinking of the attached patch,
which replaces the overly terse (and incorrect) example
with a longer version with better comments.

Push here:
  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/sed.git/commit/?id=490b4997

regards,
 - assaf





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