Sed 4.2.2 Version Upgrade

[William Harrington]

ftp.gnu.org/gnu/sed/sed-4.2.2.tar.bz2

Sed 4.2.2

• don't misbehave (truncate input) for lines of length 2^{31 and longer}

• fix endless loop on incomplete multibyte sequences

• -u also does unbuffered input, rather than unbuffered output only

• New command `F' to print current input file name

• sed -i, s/w, and the w' and W' commands also obey the --binary option (and create CR/LF-terminated files if the option is absent)

• --posix fails for scripts (or fragments as passed to the -e option) that end in a backslash, as they are not portable.

• New option -z (--null-data) to separate lines by ASCII NUL characters.

• \x26 (and similar escaped sequences) produces a literal & in the replacement argument of the s/ command, rather than including the matched text.