MPE/iX Shell and Utilities Reference Manual, Vol 2

sed(1) MPE/iX Shell and Utilities sed(1)
DIAGNOSTICS
Possible exit status values are:
0 Successful completion.
1 An error occurred.
Messages
Message: bad regular expression delimiter after \
Cause: You used a backslash (\) to indicate an alternate regular expression delimiter,
but you did not follow it with a valid delimiter.
Action: Provide a valid delimiter following the \ (that is, any character other than new-
line, space, tab, or EOF).
Message: badly formed file name for "cmd" command
Cause: You specified the cmd which requires a file name as an argument, but the given
argument does not have the syntax of a file name.
Action: Specify a valid file name.
Message: cannot allocate buffer: system error
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
Message: Can’t chain "cmd" command: system error
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
Message: cannot determine PATH_MAX: system error
Cause: See syserror(3).
Action: See syserror(3).
Message: cannot nest "!" command
Cause: You attempted to execute one ! command from within another.
Action: Remove any nested ! commands.
Message: cannot open file "filename"in"cmd" command
Cause: For some reason, sed was unable to open the file filename that was specified as
an argument to the cmd command.
Action: Check that the file name exists, that it was spelled correctly, and that you have
appropriate permissions.
Message: "cmd" command needs a label
Cause: You specified a command that requires a label as an argument, but you did not
provide the label name.
Action: Provide the missing label name.
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