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Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 11:49:53 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: Sed Script works in 3.02-1, fails in 4.0.1-1
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Dwight,

I can't tell what you intend to do with that SED script, but I agree with 
its complaint.

If you want to use slashes within the pattern or replacement, you'll either 
have to escape them by preceding each with a backslash or use an 
alternative separator. I'm fond of semicolon in this kind of situation.

Randall Schulz


At 11:33 2003-01-08, Dwight Neal wrote:

>I am migrating from a machine that uses a cygwin image loaded in May 2002 
>to one that uses a November 2002 download, and have a sed script that 
>fails in the newer version:
>
>(This should be a single line of input, but I'm sure it will wrap when 
>emailed):
>
>sed -f modifyhtm.txt "\Web 
>Configuration\Default_installing.htm" >results\Default_installing.htm
>
>The error reported is:
>
>'sed: file modifyhtm.txt line 1: No previous regular expression'
>
>The only difference I can find between the two machines (both WinXP, 
>similar hardware, etc) is that I have sed 4.0.1-1 on the newer one.  When 
>I back off to the older sed.exe, the script runs just fine.  I use about 
>30 other scripts on the two machines without errors.
>
>I am attaching cygcheck -s output from each machine (before I made any 
>changes to executables), and the modifyhtm.txt script.  The one 
>caveat:  the output from the ver 4 machine shows I had a CYGWIN 
>environment variable set to binmode, but this was for testing, and did not 
>effect the outcome.
>
>Thanks for your help,
>Dwight Neal


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