Mail Archives: cygwin/2000/03/21/21:34:55
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 06:33:55PM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote:
>Chris Faylor wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>This is a command prompt (not bash) issue, I believe. The Windows
>command prompt does not use the single quote (apostrophe) for quoting,
>only double quotes. The single quotes are probably being passed in to
>sed.
Which is kinda what I was driving at.
The snapshots do understand apostrophe as the quote character, FWIW.
cgf
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