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building sed for osx
A quick googling this morning landed me here: http://wiki.octave.org/wiki.pl?OctaveForMac which gives perfectly good instructions on installing sed. except it didnt work. I grabbed the latest version of sed (4.1.5) and got the error
sed: 1: "install_sh=/Users/apoka ...": command i expects \ followed by text sed: 1: "install_sh=/Users/apoka ...": command i expects \ followed by text
Ironic, huh? Well taking a guess that at some point sed hadcome to depend on its own functionality to configure itself I jumped back a version… Figuring i replace BSD sed with an out of date GNU sed, and then use the old GNU sed to build the new GNU sed. Which worked great. I Installed first sed-3.0.2, and then 4.1.5 in this manner:
./configure --prefix=/usr/ --with-included-regex --with-included-gettext && make && sudo make install
I’m happy with my -r again…
# date | sed -r s/'[0-9]‘/’?'/g Thu Apr ?? ??:??:?? PDT ????
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Well I’m Back
The vacation was OK. It rained almost constantly, was cold. The drive up was the worst, it just happened to coincide with a huge storm, and we could hardly see the road as we drove through the mountains (thank God for GPS.) There was no fence so we had to stand out in the rain to let the dogs do their business. The shops were alright, a lot of them closed for THEIR vacations (being the tourist off season.) Before we left the window in the kitchen sprung a leak just in time for a huge rainstorm. Bella went into heat (again) and had to wear a diaper the whole time. The dogs didn’t behave well (dogs neverdo when cooped up for a week solid (on top of the hormone cocktail of bella going into heat.)) We did get about 3/4 of a day on the beach in the sun towards the end.
We’ll get bella fixed as soon as shes out of heat. We would have done so earlier but for various medical complications (eye surgery, then heat, then the new cat brought ringworm to the home with it, and now heat again.) Dont worry, we’re not planning on having our own puppies. Not at this juncture in our lives anyway.
All said, I was relieved to finally get home where things made sense, and even if bad things were to continue plaguing us we could deal with it in the known comforts of our own home.
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And we’re off
quick update
My replay tv is dying
My wifes laptop is dying
I have one dog getting out of surgery right now because of a hematoma
I have one cat with ringworm
One cat got the crap beat up out of her in a fight
I had my tire punctured so badly it needs replacing (this was on the way to the vet yesterday night when we noticed the swelling in buddy’s ear (the hematoma))
The dogs chewed a hose
One dog ate my wifes flipflops while we were away and puked pieces of it up all over the house
We have to go back to Fremont sometime this week to return the old cable receiver and modem or get sent to collections
Oh, and the IRS sent us a letter about a form missing from my tax return (I used TaxCut to avoid exactly this kind of crap!)
On the plus side… We’re alive
Off to the vets office
When simple plans attack!
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