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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 18:33:55 -0800
From: Bob McGowan <rmcgowan AT veritas DOT com>
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Subject: Re: odd sed behavior
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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.
> 
> cgf
> 
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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.

I'd suggest to Michael that you try first starting the bash shell, then
run the sed command and see what happens.

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Staff Software Quality Engineer
VERITAS Software
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