You're right, my bad. On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 7:58 AM, Assaf Gordon wrote: > Hello, > > from a cursory look: > > On 08/02/2017 07:35 AM, jean-christophe manciot wrote: > > *With 25 patterns, sed fails to filter 'build-aux*': > > root@samsung-ubuntu:/home/actionmystique/src# find -L -path > > './*/build-*.sh' 2>/dev/null | sed -E '/.*ExpressVPN/client\..*$/d; > > /\.gd.*$/d; /.*git-Tao_Te_eChing.*$/d; /.*\.gnupg.*$/d; > [...] > > Could it be that this 25th pattern that you've added (as the first > sed command) has an un-escaped slash, which messes up the rest of the > patterns ? > > That is, the sed command "/.*ExpressVPN/client\..*$/d;' > actually means: match lines with "ExpressVPN", > then "c" (change) the lines to "lient\n..*$d/;". > > Example: > > $ echo "ExpressVPN" | sed -E '/.*ExpressVPN/client\..*$/d;' > lient..*$/d; > > And, if this is the first pattern, then all the rest of the text > is treated as the same line to change, and not as additional sed > patterns: > > $ echo "ExpressVPN" | sed -E '/.*ExpressVPN/client\..*$/d; > /Anything Else/d' > > lient..*$/d; /Anything Else/d > > > This is a just a quick guess, I haven't been able to reproduce > what you're seeing otherwise. > > regards, > - assaf > > -- Jean-Christophe