[Swan-dev] sed -e 's/u_int\([^0-9]\)/unsigned\1/g'

[Andrew Cagney]

I've pushed the change for 'pluto'.

I didn't touch the kind of isolated directories:
  lib/libcrypt/ - serpent and twofish - build problems
  linux/ - shared with klips - requires thorougher testing

On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 at 11:57, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh at mimosa.com> wrote:
>
> | From: Andrew Cagney <andrew.cagney at gmail.com>
>
> | On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 at 23:54, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh at mimosa.com> wrote:
>
> | > The pattern /\<u_int\>/ is more reliable and easier.  I'd recommend
> | > this:
> | >
> | >   sed -i -e 's/\<u_int\([0-9]*\)_t\>/uint\1_t/g' -e 's/\<u_int\>/unsigned/g'
> |
> | It looks like a gnu extension, or something new to POSIX?
>
> This feature was added to vi, perhaps around 1980.  It seems to be in
> most GNU utilities but not in POSIX.
>
> (I'm quite used to it since we at U of T added it to ed and qed
> earlier than vi.  It is also in JOVE, the editor I've used since
> the mid 1980s.  I could not live without it in egrep and git grep.)
>
> I would not recommend it in scripting because scripts should be
> portable.
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