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From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: odd sed behavior
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:32:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000321203229.C22262@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <034a01bf939b$fa1d4760$0a32a8c0@rainsound.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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  reply	other threads:[~2000-03-21 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-03-21 17:15 Michael O'Brien
2000-03-21 17:32 ` Chris Faylor [this message]
2000-03-21 18:27   ` Bob McGowan
2000-03-21 18:33     ` Chris Faylor
2000-03-22  9:33     ` Michael O'Brien
2000-03-22  9:51 Earnie Boyd
2000-03-22 10:08 ` Michael O'Brien
2000-03-22 10:16 Earnie Boyd
2000-03-22 11:26 ` Chris Faylor

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