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From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com>
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Subject: Re: sed not working
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Rein Kadastik wrote:

>
> Rein Kadastik wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I have a problem with sed on one of my systems.
>>
>> Lets take the following command:
>>
>> sed -e '/^\([a-z_][a-z_]*\) /s//\1 gen_/'
>>
>> On all other systems the input would be transformed:
>> int something() -> int gen_something()
>>
>> On the broken system, the transformation is not done:
>> int something() -> int something()
>>
>> The broken system used to be 4.6-STABLE but I managed to upgrade it 
>> to 4.11-RELEASE-p11, hoping that the update procedure will fix the 
>> sed, but apparently not. Imagine the make buildworld without working 
>> sed :) Anyway I generated the files on other working system so I 
>> managed to get through the buildworld part. Installkernel and 
>> installworld did not used sed so no problems there.
>>
>> Does anybody have some ideas, what would be the reason? I tested the 
>> sed command also on 4.8-RELEASE and 4.10-STABLE where it works 
>> nicely. Even copied the sed over from working systems but no luck.
>
You've probably tried this, but what does "which sed" show on the broken 
system?  It should show /usr/bin/sed and if it doesn't, there's your 
problem :-)

--Alex