./textproc/gsed, GNU implementation of sed, the POSIX stream editor

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 4.10, Package name: gsed-4.10, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

GNU implementation of the POSIX stream editor `sed'.

Sed (streams editor) isn't really a true text editor or text
processor. Instead, it is used to filter text, i.e., it takes text
input and performs some operation (or set of operations) on it and
outputs the modified text. Sed is typically used for extracting part
of a file using pattern matching or substituting multiple occurrences
of a string within a file.



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   2026-05-13 08:02:27 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (7) | Package updated
Log message:
gsed: update to 4.10.

* Noteworthy changes in release 4.10 (2026-04-21) [stable]

** Bug fixes

  sed 's/a/b/g' (and other global substitutions) now works on input
  lines longer than 2GB. Previously, matches beyond the 2^31 byte offset
  would evoke a "panic" (exit 4).
  [bug present since the beginning]

  'sed --follow-symlinks -i' no longer has a TOCTOU race that could let
  an attacker swap a symlink between resolution and open, causing sed to
  read attacker-chosen content and write it to the original target.
  [bug introduced in sed 4.1e]

  sed no longer falsely matches when back-references are combined with
  optional groups (.?) and the $ anchor.  For example, this no longer
  falsely matches the empty string at beginning of line:
    $ echo ab | sed -E 's/^(.?)(.?).?\2\1$/X/'
    Xab
  [bug present since "the beginning"]

  In --posix mode, sed no longer mishandles backslash escapes (\n,
  \t, \a, etc.) after a named character class like [[:alpha:]].
  For example, 's/^A\n[[:alpha:]]\n*/XXX/' would fail to match the
  trailing newline, treating \n as a literal backslash and an 'n'
  rather than a newline.  This happened when an earlier backslash
  escape in the same regex had already been converted, shifting the
  in-place normalization buffer.
  [bug introduced in sed 4.9]

  sed --debug no longer crashes when a label (":") command is compiled
  before the --debug option is processed, e.g., sed -f<(...) --debug.
  [bug introduced in sed 4.7 with --debug]

  sed no longer rejects the documented GNU extension 'a**' (equivalent
  to 'a*') in Basic Regular Expression (BRE) mode.  Previously, this
  worked only with -E (ERE mode), even though grep has always accepted
  it in BRE mode.
  [bug present since "the beginning"]

  sed no longer rejects "\c[" in regular expressions
  [bug present since the beginning]

  'sed --follow-symlinks -i' no longer mishandles an operand that is a
  short symbolic link to a long symbolic link to a file.
  [bug introduced in sed 4.9]

  Fix some some longstanding but unlikely integer overflows.
  Internally, 'sed' now more often prefers signed integer arithmetic,
  which can be checked automatically via 'gcc -fsanitize=undefined'.

** Changes in behavior

  In the default C locale, diagnostics now quote 'like this' (with
  apostrophes) instead of `like this' (with a grave accent and an
  apostrophe).  This tracks the GNU coding standards.

  'sed --posix' now warns about uses of backslashes in the 's' command
  that are handled by GNU sed but are not portable to other
  implementations.

** Build-related

  builds no longer fail on platforms without the <getopt.h> header or
  getopt_long function.
  [bug introduced in sed 4.9]
   2026-04-10 11:50:52 by Jonathan Perkin | Files touched by this commit (2)
Log message:
gsed: Fix broken gnulib.
   2026-03-25 23:48:39 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (2)
Log message:
gsed: remove separate man page download

tarball includes a copy
   2025-10-05 13:59:43 by Jonathan Schleifer | Files touched by this commit (4)
Log message:
textproc/gsed: Fix building on QNX
   2024-05-02 00:44:09 by Aleksey Cheusov | Files touched by this commit (1)
Log message:
Remove ../../devel/gettext-lib from Makefile, it is a part of options.mk
   2024-05-02 00:36:30 by Aleksey Cheusov | Files touched by this commit (3)
Log message:
Add option "nls" enabled by default
   2023-05-19 16:12:18 by Jonathan Perkin | Files touched by this commit (2)
Log message:
gsed: Fix build on SunOS/i386.
   2023-05-10 22:40:47 by Amitai Schleier | Files touched by this commit (3)
Log message:
Conditionalize more fully whether sed.1 is generated. Fixes regular
build on at least FreeBSD 13.x, and confirmed to build (both forks
of the conditional) on NetBSD and macOS.