1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tests/ls/abmon-align b/tests/ls/abmon-align
index 73b51e8a2..47df97ac0 100755
--- a/tests/ls/abmon-align
+++ b/tests/ls/abmon-align
@@ -34,9 +34,12 @@ fail=0
 
 for format in "%b" "[%b" "%b]" "[%b]"; do
   for LOC in C gv_GB ga_IE fi_FI.utf8 zh_CN ar_SY $LOCALE_FR_UTF8; do
+    # The sed usage here is slightly different from the original,
+    # removing the \(.*\), to avoid triggering misbehavior in at least
+    # GNU sed 4.2 (possibly miscompiled) on Mac OS X (Darwin 9.8.0).
     n_widths=$(
       LC_ALL=$LOC TIME_STYLE=+"$format" ls -lgG *.ts |
-      LC_ALL=C sed '1d; s/.\{15\}\(.*\) ...ts$/\1/; s/ /./g' |
+      LC_ALL=C sed 's/.\{15\}//;s/ ..\.ts$//;s/ /./g' |
       while read mon; do echo "$mon" | LC_ALL=$LOC wc -L; done |
       uniq | wc -l
     )