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From: "Jan Schormann" <Jan DOT Schormann AT BrainLAB DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: sed-4.1.2-1: backslash in 'i' and 'a' changed?
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:06:06 +0200
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Hi,

try this:

 $ echo | sed -e 'a\\'

in sed-4.0.9-2 and sed-4.1.2-1: The old one produces a backslash,
the new one doesn't. Unfortunately, this breaks a makefile I use
for generating LaTeX output ...

Can this be a side effect of the change described below? Will this
be stable or is it a bug?

---------------------------------------------------------------
From: Corinna Vinschen
Subject: Updated: sed-4.1.2-1
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 10:14:24 -0700

[...]

  when a \ is used to escape the character that would terminate an
operand
  of the s or y commands, the backslash is removed before the regex
is
  compiled.

[...]
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Cheers,
	Jan.



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