On 2006-10-29, beatnick wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to run bibexport.sh on a LaTeX aux file to produce a
> subsetted .bib file. But when I run ./bibexport.sh it gets as far as
> creating the new .bib file but doesn't write anything to it. Instead I
> get the error:
>
> sed: illegal option -- r
> usage: sed script [-Ean] [-i extension] [file ...]
> sed [-an] [-i extension] [-e script] ... [-f script_file] ...
> [file ...]
>
>
> Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I've read the user guide,
> searched the web etc, am stumped.

You are not doing anything wrong; bibexport.sh is using a
non-standard (GNU only?) option to sed. The guide should have
mentioned that.

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