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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 12:23:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: Re: "sed" bug?
To: "D. Richard Hipp" <drh AT acm DOT org>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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--- "D. Richard Hipp" <drh AT acm DOT org> wrote:
> The following script works under Linux but fails on
> Cygwin20 running under Windows95:
> 
>   #! /bin/sh
>   echo 'E:/a/b/c' | sed 's,^\([a-zA-Z]\):/,//\1/,'
> 
> Under Linux the output is "//E/a/b/c".  Under Cygwin20,
> the output is "E:/a/b/c".  That's if I run the script from
> a file.  (The same file -- samba mounted off of the Linux
> machine.)  If I type the command in directly at the
> shell prompt, it works correctly on both machines.
> 

Does the command work interactively under sh vs bash?  Try quoting the : in the
sed search string.


===
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