[MITgcm-devel] syntax on MAC OS X

[Martin Losch]

Hi Jean-Michel,

still does not work, the first error occurs at lines like this:

csysm15::run> sed "/^ *\&PARM03/a \ nTimesteps=$Dbl" data.tst
sed: 1: "/^ *\&PARM03/a \ nTimest ...": extra characters after \ at  
the end of a command

I do not see the syntax error. On Mac OS, the Unix is basically BSD  
unix.
this works
csysm15::run> sed "/^ *\&PARM03/a \" data.tst
but that does not insert anything (o:

Martin

PS. I gave up and installed the GNU sed, and then your script works

On Mar 3, 2009, at 10:09 PM, Jean-Michel Campin wrote:

> Hi Martin,
>
>> Thanks for the modified do_tst_2+2 (BTW, tst_2+2 does not work on my
>> Apple/Leopard, some sed syntax issues, I think, but I did not have  
>> the
>> time to sort it out, as my sed skills are poor; does the script  
>> work on
>> other non-linux platforms? I assume that the shell tools are
>> different/GNU vs. BSD Unix, etc).
>
> I've checked in a litle modif in "tst_2+2" which allows me to
> use the "--posix" option of sed (supposed to disable all GNU  
> extensions).
> When you have time, could you check if it improves something.
>
> Thanks,
> Jean-Michel
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