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: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:26:23 -0500 To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: odd sed behavior Message-ID: <20000322142623.A18128@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: cgf@cygnus.com, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: <20000322181624.15843.qmail@web121.yahoomail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.8i In-Reply-To: <20000322181624.15843.qmail@web121.yahoomail.com>; from earnie_boyd@yahoo.com on Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:16:24AM -0800 On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 10:16:24AM -0800, Earnie Boyd wrote: >--- Michael O'Brien wrote: >> Hola~ >> >> This is what I'm doing currently. The sed expression is in a Makefile, so >> the better solutution would be to leave it there as opposed to adding a two >> line file. I'm not trying to be picky, I just want to understand who's >> having problems (sed or the command prompt). >> > >As has already been stated it is the command prompt. It doesn't understand the >single-quote ' character as a quoting character. You could try replacing it >with a double-quote " character; but, I have no idea if it will work. Most >users of Cygwin use it from the bash prompt so there aren't these kinds of >problems. Actually, if this is being called in a Makefile then setting MAKE_MODE=unix should fix the problem. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com