Delete rest of line with sed works on Linux but not on Solaris

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi all,

Our application installation uses "sed" command to delete rest of line. It work perfect on Linux but fail on Solaris.
The OS versions are Solaris 9 and Linux Red Hat AS 3.

yourfile.txt

hello and world
cat and dog
hello world

in linux:

cat yourfile.txt | sed �s/\([^ ]\+\) *and.*/\1/g' > out.txt

then my out.txt look like now

hello
cat
hello world

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in Solaris

cat yourfile.txt | sed �s/\([^ ]\+\) *and.*/\1/g' > out2.txt

out2.txt

hello and world
cat and dog
hello world

Any one know why it does not work on Soloris?

Thank very much

Kevin

2 
echo 'hello and world' | sed 's/\([^ ][^ ]*\) *and.*/\1/g'
3

If this is NOT what you want, explain what you're trying to achieve.

sed 's/ and.*//' yourfile
4

Thanks very much , I think it work.

kevin