From e93d15613e827db0d1a7ee7e251b7360bb7ab447 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Denys Vlasenko Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 01:43:40 +0200 Subject: sed: document where we are more liberal then GNU Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko --- editors/sed.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'editors/sed.c') diff --git a/editors/sed.c b/editors/sed.c index f8ca5d351..f90bc5449 100644 --- a/editors/sed.c +++ b/editors/sed.c @@ -649,6 +649,12 @@ static void add_cmd(const char *cmdstr) sed_cmd->cmd = *cmdstr++; cmdstr = parse_cmd_args(sed_cmd, cmdstr); + /* cmdstr now points past args. + * GNU sed requires a separator, if there are more commands, + * else it complains "char N: extra characters after command". + * Example: "sed 'p;d'". We also allow "sed 'pd'". + */ + /* Add the command to the command array */ *G.sed_cmd_tail = sed_cmd; G.sed_cmd_tail = &sed_cmd->next; -- cgit v1.2.3