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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:47:03 -0400
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: Bug of bash with sed operation ???
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In-Reply-To: <394F8117.EF7EEB1C@cisco.com>; from zqian@cisco.com on Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:35:03AM -0400

On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:35:03AM -0400, Zhiguang Qian wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Here is the sample.
>
>>>export MY=\aaa\bbb.c
>>>echo $MY | sed -e 's#\\#\/#g'
>>> /aaa/bbb.c
>>>out=`echo $MY | sed -e 's#\\#\/#g'`
>>> sed: -e expression #1, char 8: Unterminated `s' command
>
>Try it.

I did.  Have you tried it on UNIX?  Same effect.  It's not a bug.

Your \\ is being eaten inside the ` ...  ` command.  You probably need
to double up on these when you are using them inside of backquotes (or
" style quotes for that matter).

cgf

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