Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 21:33:11 -0500 To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: odd sed behavior Message-ID: <20000321213310.A22560@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: cgf@cygnus.com, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: <034a01bf939b$fa1d4760$0a32a8c0@rainsound.com> <20000321203229.C22262@cygnus.com> <38D83113.476DA178@veritas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.8i In-Reply-To: <38D83113.476DA178@veritas.com>; from rmcgowan@veritas.com on Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 06:33:55PM -0800 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 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com