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Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 09:23:48 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Interesting pipe feature.
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On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 06:48:05AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>Duh!!! :)
>
>I thought I tried that.  Actually, the sed script is 's#\\\\#/#g' or a
>"char 9: Unknown option to 's'" is displayed.

You know, this really doesn't sound like it has the slightest thing to
do with cygwin1.dll.

cgf

>Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 11:59:01AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> > "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
>> > >
>> > > OK, sorry.  You're right.  Interestingly enough, I don't have trouble
>> > > running `echo $COMSPEC` directly on W2K, although your command sequence
>> > > above also works.  Do you have the same problem with `echo $COMSPEC` on
>> > > XP?
>> > >
>> >
>> > Yes, that's what I said.  Hmm... Nothing like consistancy.
>> 
>> `echo $COMSPEC | sed -e 's#\\\\#/#g#'`
>>                            ^^^^
>> works great on XPprof