Re: Checking the version of sed you have

On 10 Dec 2005 at 0:21, Rachel Cogent wrote:

> strings /usr/bin/sed | grep eric
> 
> $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/sed/process.c,v 1.29 2002/09/20 19:40:23 eric Exp $

   Smile. That would probably be a reference to Eric S. Raymond, but 
that's just a guess. Eric wrote small-sed:

    http://www.catb.org/~esr/sed/README

and he governs its replacement, minised:

    http://freshmeat.net/projects/minised/
    http://www.exactcode.de/oss/minised/

   On the other hand, there are an *awful* lot of Erics in the world, 
and most of them are computer jocks (geeky or not), and they almost 
all have moustaches, and their names get surreptitously implanted 
into all kinds of source code. And if you don't believe me, you need 
to be introduced to:

   The Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs, maintained by Eric S. Raymond
   http://www.catb.org/~esr/ecsl/index.html

   I think I've exposed too much already. I may have to send myself 
on a long vacation. (smile)

-- 
Eric Pement - pemente@xxxxxxxxxxxxx




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