Sed 4.0.3
* fix packaging problem (two missing translation catalogs)
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Sed 4.0.2
* more translations
* fix build problems (vpath builds and bootstrap builds)
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Sed 4.0.1
* Remove last vestiges of super-sed
* man page automatically built
* more translations provided
* portability improvements
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Sed 4.0
* Update regex matcher
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Sed 3.96
* `y' command supports multibyte character sets
* Update regex matcher
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Sed 3.95
* `R' command reads a single line from a file.
* CR-LF pairs are always ignored under Windows, even if (under Cygwin)
a disk is mounted as binary.
* More attention to errors on stdout
* New `W' command to write first line of pattern space to a file
* Can customize line wrap width on single `l' commands
* `L' command formats and reflows paragraphs like `fmt' does.
* The test suite makefiles are better organized (this change is
transparent however).
* Compiles and bootstraps out-of-the-box under MinGW32 and Cygwin.
* Optimizes cases when pattern space is truncated at its start or at
its end by `D' or by a substitution command with an empty RHS.
For example scripts like this,
seq 1 10000 | tr \\n \ | ./sed ':a; s/^[0-9][0-9]* //; ta'
whose behavior was quadratic with previous versions of sed, have
now linear behavior.
* New command `e' to pipe the output of a command into the output
of sed.
* New option `e' to pass the output of the `s' command through the
Bourne shell and get the result into pattern space.
* Switched to obstacks in the parser -- less memory-related bugs
(there were none AFAIK but you never know) and less memory usage.
* New option -i, to support in-place editing a la Perl. Usually one
had to use ed or, for more complex tasks, resort to Perl; this is
not necessary anymore.
* Dumped buffering code. The performance loss is 10%, but it caused
bugs in systems with CRLF termination. The current solution is
not definitive, though.
* Bug fix: Made the behavior of s/A*/x/g (i.e. `s' command with a
possibly empty LHS) more consistent:
pattern GNU sed 3.x GNU sed 4.x
B xBx xBx
BC xBxCx xBxCx
BAC xBxxCx xBxCx
BAAC xBxxCx xBxCx
* Bug fix: the // empty regular expressions now refers to the last
regular expression that was matched, rather than to the last
regular expression that was compiled. This richer behavior seems
to be the correct one (albeit neither one is POSIXLY_CORRECT).
* Check for invalid backreferences in the RHS of the `s' command
(e.g. s/1234/\1/)
* Support for \[lLuUE] in the RHS of the `s' command like in Perl.
* New regular expression matcher
* Bug fix: if a file was redirected to be stdin, sed did not consume
it. So
(sed d; sed G) < TESTFILE
double-spaced TESTFILE, while the equivalent `useless use of cat'
cat TESTFILE | (sed d; sed G)
printed nothing (which is the correct behavior). A test for this
bug was added to the test suite.
* The documentation is now much better, with a few examples provided,
and a thorough description of regular expressions. The manual often
refers to "GNU extensions", but if they are described here they are
specific to this version.
* Documented command-line option:
-r, --regexp-extended
Use extended regexps -- e.g. (abc+) instead of \(abc\+\)
* Added feature to the `w' command and to the `w' option of the `s'
command: if the file name is /dev/stderr, it means the standard
error (inspired by awk); and similarly for /dev/stdout. This is
disabled if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set.
* Added `m' and `M' modifiers to `s' command for multi-line
matching (Perl-style); in addresses, only `M' works.
* Added `Q' command for `silent quit'; added ability to pass
an exit code from a sed script to the caller.
* Added `T' command for `branch if failed'.
* Added `v' command, which is a do-nothing intended to fail on
seds that do not support GNU sed 4.0's extensions.
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Sed 3.02.80
* Started new version nomenclature for pre-3.03 releases. (I'm being
pessimistic in assuming that .90 won't give me enough breathing room.)
* Bug fixes: the regncomp()/regnexec() interfaces proved to be inadequate to
properly handle expressions such as "s/\</#/g". Re-abstracted the regex
code in the sed/ tree, and now use the re_search_2() interface to the GNU
regex routines. This change also fixed a bug where /./ did not match the
NUL character. Had the glibc folk fix a bug in lib/regex.c where
's/0*\([0-9][0-9]\)/X\1X/' failed to match on input "002".
* Added new command-line options:
-u, --unbuffered
Do not attempt to read-ahead more than required; do not buffer stdout.
-l N, --line-length=N
Specify the desired line-wrap length for the `l' command.
A length of "0" means "never wrap".
* New internationalization translations added: fr ru de it el sk pt_BR sv
(plus nl from 3.02a).
* The s/// command now understands the following escapes
(in both halves):
\a an "alert" (BEL)
\f a form-feed
\n a newline
\r a carriage-return
\t a horizontal tab
\v a vertical tab
\oNNN a character with the octal value NNN
\dNNN a character with the decimal value NNN
\xNN a character with the hexadecimal value NN
This behavior is disabled if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, at least for the
time being (until I can be convinced that this behavior does not violate
the POSIX standard). (Incidentally, \b (backspace) was omitted because
of the conflict with the existing "word boundary" meaning. \ooo octal
format was omitted because of the conflict with backreference syntax.)
* If POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, the empty RE // now is the null match
instead of "repeat the last REmatch". As far as I can tell
this behavior is mandated by POSIX, but it would break too many
legacy sed scripts to blithely change GNU sed's default behavior.
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Sed 3.02a
* Added internationalization support, and an initial (already out of date)
set of Dutch message translations (both provided by Erick Branderhorst).
* Added support for scripts like:
sed -e 1ifoo -e '$abar'
(note no need for \ <newline> after a, i, and c commands).
Also, conditionally (on NO_INPUT_INDENT) added
experimental support for skipping leading whitespace on
each {a,i,c} input line.
* Added addressing of the form:
/foo/,+5 p (print from foo to 5th line following)
/foo/,~5 p (print from foo to next line whose line number is a multiple of 5)
The first address of these can be any of the previously existing
addressing types; the +N and ~N forms are only allowed as the
second address of a range.
* Added support for pseudo-address "0" as the first address in an
address-range, simplifying scripts which happen to match the end
address on the first line of input. For example, a script
which deletes all lines from the beginning of the file to the
first line which contains "foo" is now simply "sed 0,/foo/d",
whereas before one had to go through contortions to deal with
the possibility that "foo" might appear on the first line of
the input.
* Made NUL characters in regexps work "correctly" --- i.e., a NUL
in a RE matches a NUL; it does not prematurely terminate the RE.
(This only works in -f scripts, as the POSIX.1 exec*() interface
only passes NUL-terminated strings, and so sed will only be able
to see up to the first NUL in any -e scriptlet.)
* Wherever a `;' is accepted as a command terminator, also allow a `}'
or a `#' to appear. (This allows for less cluttered-looking scripts.)
* Lots of internal changes that are only relevant to source junkies
and development testing. Some of which might cause imperceptible
performance improvements.
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Sed 3.02
* Fixed a bug in the parsing of character classes (e.g., /[[:space:]]/).
Corrected an omission in djgpp/Makefile.am and an improper dependency
in testsuite/Makefile.am.
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Sed 3.01
* This version of sed mainly contains bug fixes and portability
enhancements, plus performance enhancements related to sed's handling
of input files. Due to excess performance penalties, I have reverted
(relative to 3.00) to using regex.c instead of the rx package for
regular expression handling, at the expense of losing true POSIX.2
BRE compatibility. However, performance related to regular expression
handling *still* needs a fair bit of work.
* One new feature has been added: regular expressions may be followed
with an "I" directive ("i" was taken [the "i"nsert command]) to
indicate that the regexp should be matched in a case-insensitive
manner. Also of note are a new organization to the source code,
new documentation, and a new maintainer.
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Sed 3.0
* This version of sed passes the new test-suite donated by
Jason Molenda.
* Overall performance has been improved in the following sense: Sed 3.0
is often slightly slower than sed 2.05. On a few scripts, though, sed
2.05 was so slow as to be nearly useless or to use up unreasonable
amounts of memory. These problems have been fixed and in such cases,
sed 3.0 should have acceptable performance.
