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Re: odd sed behavior
- To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: odd sed behavior
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 20:32:29 -0500
- References: <034a01bf939b$fa1d4760$0a32a8c0@rainsound.com>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 05:14:28PM -0800, Michael O'Brien wrote:
>When using the 20.1 version of cygwin, I'm seeing the following
>strange-ness. From the command prompt:
>
> F:\>sort -u a.msg | sed 's/[\\"]/\\&/g;s/.*/\"&\",/'
> sed: -e expression #1, char 21: Unterminated `s' command
> The system cannot find the path specified.
>
> F:\>sort -u a.msg | sed 's/[\\"]/\\&/g;s/.*/&,/'
>
>Anyone have any ideas why this doesn't work?
I don't believe that B20.1 understands the "'" (apostrophe) quote
character.
cgf
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