[MITgcm-devel] syntax on MAC OS X

[David Ferreira]

Martin,
I don't have a sed in /sw/local/. So apparently, sed has changed...
david

Martin Losch wrote:
> Are you sure that David is using the /usr/bin/sed on 10.4? Once he has 
> started with "fink", it's likely that he downloaded the gnu version of 
> sed, which would be put in /sw/bin/sed.
>
> As far as I am concerned, we can leave it at that, unless you want me 
> to try more things. We could replace the too sed commands in question 
> with awk commands (although I've had problems with that as well, but 
> for awk I have a wizzard next door).
>
> Martin
>
> On Mar 4, 2009, at 10:44 PM, Jean-Michel Campin wrote:
>
>> Hi Martin,
>>
>> It looks more tricky than I thought: on Mac OS X 10.4
>> (David tried it) with the default sed, it works.
>> So the problem is on 10.5, right ?
>> Anyway, if the GNU sed does the job ...
>> Thanks,
>> Jean-Michel
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 10:58:58AM +0100, Martin Losch wrote:
>>> 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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