MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

sed(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities sed(1)
Message: script file "filename": system error
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
Message: unknown command
Cause: You specified a command that sed does not recognize.
Action: Check the Commands subsection for a list of valid sed commands.
Message: Unknown option "–option"
Cause: You specified an option that is not valid for sed.
Action: Check the DESCRIPTION section for a list of valid sed options.
Message: unmatched {} commands
Cause: There is a { command in your script which does not have a corresponding } to
terminate it.
Action: Make sure that there are as many { as there are {.
Message: "y" command may not be followed by a newline
Cause: You followed the y command with a newline rather than its required arguments.
Action: Provide the missing arguments.
Message: "\" must terminate the "cmd" command
Cause: You specified the cmd command, but you did not provide the backslash (\)
required to terminate its input.
Action: Provide the missing \.
LIMITS
sed allows a limit of 1024 bytes per line and 500,000 lines per file. It does not allow the
NUL
character. The maximum length of a global command is 256 characters, including newlines.
PORTABILITY
POSIX.2. x/OPEN Portability Guide 4.0. All UNIX systems.
The –E option is an extension to the POSIX standard.
MPE/iX NOTES
Although the current MPE/iX implementation of the sed command can read non-byte stream
files, it can only write byte stream files. As a result, if you edit a non-byte stream file with
sed and save it, that file is now a byte stream file. File characteristics like file code, record
size, and so forth are not preserved by this conversion.
For more information on how the current MPE/iX implementation may affect the operation of
this utility, see Appendix A, MPE/iX Implementation Considerations.
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