bugs in package sed -- GNU bug report logs

#29556 [n| | ] [sed] Question About sed for Windows
Reported by: Ronald Satz <transpower <at> aol.com>; Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 00:41:03 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 6 years and 355 days ago; Modified 6 years and 355 days ago;
#33181 [n| | ] [sed] sed --debug: fix two problems
Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>; Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 23:01:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 6 years and 27 days ago; Modified 6 years and 27 days ago;
#34141 [n| | ] [sed] Stackoverflow triggered at lib/regexec.c:1948
Reported by: Hongxu Chen <leftcopy.chx <at> gmail.com>; Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 05:59:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 5 years and 308 days ago; Modified 5 years and 307 days ago;
#34142 [n| | ] [sed] AddressSanitizer reported heap-buffer-overflow
Reported by: Hongxu Chen <leftcopy.chx <at> gmail.com>; Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2019 06:11:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 5 years and 308 days ago; Modified 5 years and 307 days ago;
#36128 [n| | ] [sed] Failed tests for sed 4.7 on Solaris 10 x86
Reported by: Dagobert Michelsen <dam <at> opencsw.org>; Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2019 12:58:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 5 years and 169 days ago; Modified 5 years and 54 days ago;
#37195 [n| | ] [sed] sed documentation improvement suggestion
Reported by: is a <yangshuai <at> gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 23:29:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 5 years and 89 days ago; Modified 5 years and 89 days ago;
#38280 [n| | ] [sed] FAIL: test-canonicalize-lgpl with GCC 10
Reported by: Martin Liška <mliska <at> suse.cz>; Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 18:53:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 5 years and 4 days ago; Modified 1 year and 326 days ago;
#40058 [n| | ] [sed] possible bug in sed?
Reported by: David Misc <davidmiscem <at> gmail.com>; Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 02:38:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 4 years and 254 days ago; Modified 4 years and 251 days ago;
#40325 [n| | ] [sed] make backup files for "-i" option invisible
Reported by: nokangaroo <aon.913677709 <at> aon.at>; Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:42:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 4 years and 237 days ago; Modified 4 years and 233 days ago;
#40404 [n| | ] [sed] sed v.4.5 – Rows Invoked for deletion are present in output
Reported by: Ricky Tigg <ricky.tigg <at> gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 13:12:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 4 years and 233 days ago; Modified 4 years and 233 days ago;
#41558 [n| | ] [sed] Regexp Bug
Reported by: "anton.paras" <anton <at> paras.nu>; Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 04:16:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 4 years and 180 days ago; Modified 4 years and 61 days ago;
#41773 [n| | ] [sed] Fuzzer created crash
Reported by: Raimar Falke <i-gnu-org <at> rf.risimo.net>; Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 06:16:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 4 years and 167 days ago; Modified 4 years and 167 days ago;
#42133 [n| | ] [sed] Error in 2nd example at www.gnu.org/software/sed/
Reported by: James Waldby <j13 <at> pat7.com>; Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 01:10:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 4 years and 146 days ago; Modified 4 years and 146 days ago;
#42418 [n| | ] [sed] a test failure and a core file on Solaris 10 and Oracle/Fujitsu SPARC M-class servers
Reported by: Dennis Clarke <dclarke <at> blastwave.org>; Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2020 16:42:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 4 years and 127 days ago; Modified 4 years and 127 days ago;
#42963 [n| | ] [sed] sed clean my file
Reported by: 杨公所 <hzgongsuo2012 <at> 163.com>; Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 04:30:03 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 4 years and 94 days ago; Modified 4 years and 94 days ago;
#45301 [n| | ] [sed] Sed Installation Errors
Reported by: Sarah Moreland <smmorel <at> me.com>; Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 16:16:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 3 years and 340 days ago; Modified 3 years and 339 days ago;
#45949 [n| | ] [sed] documentation is incorrect about the T command
Reported by: Nora Platiel <nplatiel <at> gmx.us>; Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 07:04:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 3 years and 309 days ago; Modified 3 years and 309 days ago;
#46428 [n| | ] [sed] qq
Reported by: L A Walsh <law <at> tlinx.org>; Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2021 20:55:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 3 years and 285 days ago; Modified 3 years and 285 days ago;
#46581 [n| | ] [sed] Test failures on cygwin
Reported by: Soren <somian08 <at> gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 00:25:03 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 3 years and 279 days ago; Modified 3 years and 279 days ago;
#47281 [n| | ] [sed] sed: problem with hex replace a literal '$'
Reported by: Bastian Bittorf <bb <at> npl.de>; Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2021 13:51:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 3 years and 247 days ago; Modified 3 years and 246 days ago;
#47390 [n| | ] [sed] -i and -n options are order-sensitive
Reported by: rgrosso <r.grosso <at> gsi.de>; Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:21:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 3 years and 242 days ago; Modified 3 years and 207 days ago;
#48167 [n| | ] [sed] When nervous about \+ portability
Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>; Date: Sun, 2 May 2021 20:34:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 3 years and 204 days ago; Modified 3 years and 204 days ago;
#48677 [n| | ] [sed] typos in 5.8.1 Escaping Precedence
Reported by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo <at> scientia.net>; Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 16:57:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 3 years and 180 days ago; Modified 3 years and 180 days ago;
#48725 [n| | ] [sed] surprising error char/pos with --sandbox + s///e command
Reported by: Travis Everett <travis.a.everett <at> gmail.com>; Date: Sat, 29 May 2021 04:37:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 3 years and 178 days ago; Modified 3 years and 178 days ago;
#49092 [n| | ] [sed] Bug/Limitation of sed
Reported by: Alice Golakiya <golakiyaalice <at> gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 15:18:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 3 years and 157 days ago; Modified 3 years and 157 days ago;
#49287 [n| | ] [sed] sed -i disrespects read-only
Reported by: Leonid Mironov <lvm <at> royal.net>; Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2021 08:31:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 3 years and 145 days ago; Modified 3 years and 110 days ago;
#49590 [n| | ] [sed] Error in GNU sed manual
Reported by: Matthew Hoffman <matthewchoffman <at> protonmail.com>; Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 01:51:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 3 years and 130 days ago; Modified 3 years and 128 days ago;
#49680 [n| | ] [sed] Errors in Texinfo documentation
Reported by: Renaud Pacalet <renaud.pacalet <at> telecom-paris.fr>; Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 14:17:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 3 years and 124 days ago; Modified 3 years and 110 days ago;
#50185 [n| | ] [sed] Start of line not recognised
Reported by: flywire <flywire0 <at> gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 13:53:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 3 years and 90 days ago; Modified 3 years and 90 days ago;
#51462 [n| | ] [sed] sed bug: ASCII NUL not handled in simple pattern
Reported by: Frances Wingerter <fw <at> immunant.com>; Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 16:49:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 3 years and 25 days ago; Modified 3 years and 24 days ago;
#51560 [n| | ] [sed] Pattern matching not working as expected
Reported by: Rob Dyck <rob.dyck <at> telus.net>; Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2021 22:45:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 3 years and 21 days ago; Modified 3 years and 20 days ago;
#52944 [n| | ] [sed] FYI: gnulib update, copyright update, recursive, disable-indent
Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>; Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2022 06:51:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 2 years and 325 days ago; Modified 2 years and 325 days ago;
#54113 [n| | ] [sed] Fwd: sed leaving temporary files behind
Reported by: bug-sed <at> gnu.org; Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 17:18:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 2 years and 273 days ago; Modified 2 years and 273 days ago;
#54484 [n| | ] [sed] "sed -E" is not specified by POSIX
Reported by: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson <at> gmail.com>; Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2022 21:37:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 2 years and 247 days ago; Modified 2 years and 246 days ago;
#54614 [n| | ] [sed] GNU Sed 's/.../\n/' disagreement with POSIX
Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>; Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 17:21:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 2 years and 239 days ago; Modified 2 years and 239 days ago;
#55112 [n| | ] [sed] [Issue 8 drafts 0001556]: clarify meaning of \n used in a bracket expression in a sed context address or s-command
Reported by: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>; Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 16:07:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 2 years and 211 days ago; Modified 2 years and 211 days ago;
#55950 [n| | ] [sed] Inconsistency typo in info doc.
Reported by: Martin Castillo <castilma <at> uni-bremen.de>; Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 20:20:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 2 years and 162 days ago; Modified 2 years and 162 days ago;
#56018 [n| | ] [sed] sed bug when using extended regular expressions and [] with backslash character class identifiers.
Reported by: Bob Power <b_power <at> yahoo.com>; Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 12:12:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 2 years and 159 days ago; Modified 2 years and 159 days ago;
#56764 [n| | ] [sed] Sed man page omits 'g' flag for substitute command
Reported by: Tom Ekberg <tekberg <at> uw.edu>; Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 18:09:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 2 years and 120 days ago; Modified 2 years and 120 days ago;
#58287 [n| | ] [sed] bug report in linux while using sed command
Reported by: Shagun Narendra Agarwal <shagun.a <at> ahduni.edu.in>; Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2022 11:06:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 2 years and 49 days ago; Modified 2 years and 49 days ago;
#58416 [n| | ] [sed] -u should only affect stdout, not stdin
Reported by: Andras Korn <korn-gnu.org <at> elan.rulez.org>; Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 16:45:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 2 years and 43 days ago; Modified 2 years and 40 days ago;
#59119 [n| | ] [sed] test-free segfaults with PGO
Reported by: Andreas Stieger <Andreas.Stieger <at> gmx.de>; Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2022 08:22:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 2 years and 14 days ago; Modified 2 years and 14 days ago;
#59599 [n| | ] [sed] Possible sed bug
Reported by: John Larew <john.larew <at> outlook.com>; Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2022 04:11:05 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 362 days ago; Modified 1 year and 362 days ago;
#59656 [n| | ] [sed] An error on your web page (example 7.20)
Reported by: "Tomas Kana " <kana <at> seznam.cz>; Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 10:55:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 359 days ago; Modified 1 year and 359 days ago;
#60236 [n| | ] [sed] [4.9] Link error on MinGW cross compile Linux -> Windows
Reported by: Frank Büttner <frank.buettner <at> mdc-berlin.de>; Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 07:30:03 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 336 days ago; Modified 1 year and 330 days ago;
#60378 [n| | ] [sed] gsed foreign language translations aren't working
Reported by: Yuri <yuri <at> FreeBSD.org>; Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2022 11:47:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 329 days ago; Modified 1 year and 329 days ago;
#60425 [n| | ] [sed] Maybe a security issue
Reported by: Fabio Luiz Barbosa <fabio.barbosa <at> nzn.io>; Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2022 07:05:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 328 days ago; Modified 1 year and 328 days ago;
#60458 [n| | ] [sed] Test suite failure (testsuite/debug) with UBSAN
Reported by: Sam James <sam <at> gentoo.org>; Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2022 22:09:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 326 days ago; Modified 1 year and 326 days ago;
#61160 [n| | ] [sed] 5 test failures on Android
Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>; Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:58:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 297 days ago; Modified 1 year and 297 days ago;
#61787 [n| | ] [sed] [gnu.org #1923372] sed - build problem - malloc - savannah git master head (today)
Reported by: webmasters <at> gnu.org; Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2023 15:20:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 270 days ago; Modified 1 year and 270 days ago;
#62133 [n| | ] [sed] regression on compling sed-4.9 on SunOS 5.10
Reported by: Eike Dierks <foonlyboy <at> gmail.com>; Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2023 00:15:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 256 days ago; Modified 1 year and 256 days ago;
#62328 [n| | ] [sed] Not working on ubunto wsl \w, \d, [[:digit:]] not working and [0,9] only sometimes
Reported by: Anneliese Leipold <anneliese.leipold <at> yahoo.de>; Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 11:43:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 246 days ago; Modified 1 year and 246 days ago;
#62788 [n| | ] [sed] please include real man page in distribution
Reported by: Thomas Klausner <tk <at> giga.or.at>; Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 11:01:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 224 days ago; Modified 1 year and 224 days ago;
#63812 [n| | ] [sed] sed bug
Reported by: yu cuilu <yucuilu <at> gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 31 May 2023 13:25:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 175 days ago; Modified 1 year and 175 days ago;
#63813 [n| | ] [sed] sed bug
Reported by: yu cuilu <yucuilu <at> gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 31 May 2023 13:25:03 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 175 days ago; Modified 1 year and 175 days ago;
#63833 [n| | ] [sed] sed -iSUFFIX/--in-place=SUFFIX doesn't work for absolute paths if the input file(s) is not in the current directory.
Reported by: Sebastian Carlos <sebaaa1754 <at> gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2023 09:31:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 173 days ago; Modified 1 year and 173 days ago;
#63834 [n| | ] [sed] Outdated manuals at gnu.org/software/sed/manual
Reported by: Sebastian Carlos <sebaaa1754 <at> gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2023 09:44:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 173 days ago; Modified 1 year and 173 days ago;
#63846 [n| | ] [sed] Typo in sed manual, missing "@cindex"
Reported by: Sebastian Carlos <sebaaa1754 <at> gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2023 14:50:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 173 days ago; Modified 1 year and 173 days ago;
#63958 [n| | ] [sed] Manual doesn't mention that spaces are allowed between address and command.
Reported by: Sebastian Carlos <sebaaa1754 <at> gmail.com>; Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2023 09:00:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 167 days ago; Modified 1 year and 167 days ago;
#64080 [n| | ] [sed] e execute command within braces
Reported by: Thomas Loimer <thomas.loimer <at> tuwien.ac.at>; Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2023 13:39:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 160 days ago; Modified 1 year and 160 days ago;
#64539 [n| | ] [sed] Possible issue with GNU sed documentation regarding the -n option
Reported by: Ângelo Otávio Nuffer Nunes <angelonuffer <at> gmail.com>; Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2023 09:08:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 136 days ago; Modified 120 days ago;
#65421 [n| | ] [sed] [REGRESSION] Removal of gnuopt in 4.9
Reported by: "Osipov, Michael (IN IT IN)" <michael.osipov <at> siemens.com>; Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 10:34:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 93 days ago; Modified 1 year and 93 days ago;
#66236 [n| | ] [sed] Specific Korean characters break Unicode parsing
Reported by: kristian.jarventaus <at> clausal.com; Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:44:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 56 days ago; Modified 1 year and 56 days ago;
#66411 [n| | ] [sed] sed --debug option prints the contents of the hold space after running the 'g' command
Reported by: Zachary Santer <zsanter <at> gmail.com>; Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2023 19:27:03 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 45 days ago; Modified 1 year and 39 days ago;
#66893 [n| | ] [sed] Error: sed: couldn't open temporary file ./sed7hc859: Permission denied
Reported by: Abraham Osmond <abraham <at> openfabric.co>; Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2023 05:54:04 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 21 days ago; Modified 1 year and 21 days ago;
#66907 [n| | ] [sed] 3.2 sed commands summary missing commands
Reported by: lostbits <forum <at> slipbits.com>; Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2023 03:10:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Found in version 3.2; Filed 1 year and 20 days ago; Modified 1 year and 20 days ago;
#68725 [n| | ] [sed] GNU grep and sed behaving unexpectedly with multiple 1-or-0 RE capture groups and backreferences
Reported by: Ed Morton <mortoneccc <at> comcast.net>; Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 04:17:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 301 days ago; Modified 290 days ago;
#68726 [n| | ] [sed] GNU grep and sed behaving unexpectedly with multiple 1-or-0 RE capture groups and backreferences
Reported by: Ed Morton <mortoneccc <at> comcast.net>; Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 04:17:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 301 days ago; Modified 301 days ago;
#70232 [n| | ] [sed] Bug in argument handling may lead to segfault if --debug is passed after any compile step
Reported by: 37 <at> cmail.nu; Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2024 06:39:03 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 230 days ago; Modified 230 days ago;
#70476 [n| | ] [sed] `**` GNU extension only works when ERE syntax is enabled
Reported by: Dylan Brotherston <d.brotherston <at> unsw.edu.au>; Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 23:06:11 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 216 days ago; Modified 216 days ago;
#70866 [n| | ] [sed] panic-tests.sh test fails when run as root
Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>; Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 20:00:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 195 days ago; Modified 195 days ago;
#70867 [n| | ] [sed] sed fails to compile on AIX and MSVC
Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>; Date: Fri, 10 May 2024 21:08:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 195 days ago; Modified 195 days ago;
#71119 [n| | ] [sed] Order of options bug: -iE vs. -Ei
Reported by: Jakub Šebek <jakub.sebek.o <at> seznam.cz>; Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 14:49:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 183 days ago; Modified 183 days ago;
#71682 [n| | ] [sed] sed -i '' returns error but still modify target file
Reported by: Renato Botelho <garga <at> FreeBSD.org>; Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2024 18:23:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 154 days ago; Modified 154 days ago;
#72800 [n| | ] [sed] maint: adjust to Gnulib acl changes
Reported by: Collin Funk <collin.funk1 <at> gmail.com>; Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2024 07:05:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 89 days ago; Modified 89 days ago;
#73546 [n| | ] [sed] sed 4.9 UTF-8 SMP mismatch on Cygwin
Reported by: Brian.Inglis <at> SystematicSW.ab.ca; Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2024 06:51:03 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 54 days ago; Modified 54 days ago;
#73598 [n| | ] [sed] bug in sed Invalid preceding regular expression
Reported by: Peter Smulders <p.j.m.smulders <at> home.nl>; Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 13:00:03 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 50 days ago; Modified 41 days ago;
#74065 [n| | ] [sed] documentation suggestion for caret
Reported by: Greg Minshall <minshall <at> umich.edu>; Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:15:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 24 days ago; Modified 24 days ago;
#74452 [n| | ] [sed] sed -i --follow-symlinks fails in i586 with large paths
Reported by: daniel.garcia <at> suse.com; Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 04:25:02 UTC; Severity: normal;

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