sed replacement

[Jeff Kinz]

On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 10:20:49AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On Monday 16 May 2005 9:58 am, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> 
> > Note - no new lines.  also tried
> > 's.  Any ideas as to what in the
> > local environment might cause this?
> >
> > my LANG=en_US
> Using the same input text file, I also piped the input through sed. I also 
> looked for a word that happened to be the first in a line. 
> 
> my LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> I  tested this on 4 systems:
> System					LANG		kernel			result
> SuSE 9.2 Professional(x86) 	en_US.UTF-8	2.6.8-24.14		success
> Red HAT AS4 (Itanium)		en_US.UTF-8	2.6.9-5.EL		success
> Red Hat AS3 (Opteron)		en_US.UTF-8	2.4.21-27.0.2.ELsmp success
> Red Hat 7.1 (x86)			en_US		2.4.20-28.7		Fails
> Fedora Core 3	(x86)		en_US.UTF-8	2.6.8-1.521smp	success

hmm - tried LANG=en_US.UTF-8, still failed on machine X, but it works
on machines W, Y, and Z (Ubuntu, FC2, Xandros)

(X is (don't laugh) RH 7.2) 

I'm going to chalk it up to old software, or a DHS keystroke logger
covertly installed by the "Surveillance State".  :-)


-- 
Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.