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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 21:33:11 -0500
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: odd sed behavior
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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

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