Broken sed '/*/p'

[jwilk]

In #1, @Doctor-love added

sed '/*/p' file.txt

But this duplicates lines containing the * character. E.g.:

$ printf '*hello*\nworld!\n' > file.txt
$ cat file.txt
*hello*
world!
$ sed '/*/p' file.txt
*hello*
*hello*
world!

There's now another sed call that is shorter and works correctly, so IMHO this one should be removed.

[magisterquis]

With BSD sed, at least, sed '' file.txt works as well.

[jwilk]

With BSD sed, at least, sed '' file.txt works as well.

Yup, that should work with any sed. (Successfuly tested with GNU sed and Plan 9 sed).

[jwilk]

sed '' file.txt

sed t file.txt is one character shorter. (Or longer, depending on how you count…)

[Doctor-love]

Agree!