RE: sed: altered results in bash and cmd

["Jan Schormann" <Jan dot Schormann at BrainLAB dot com>]

Hi,

> C:\>E:\cygwin\bin\echo.exe '/^ .*$/d'
> / .*$/d

> I'm not really sure but I think cmd doesn't treat single quotes as
> quoting characters - at least not in the way bash does.

That's true. In addition, the '^' in cmd is an escape character,
like the backslash in sh. Search for "string literals" in the
XP help and support center.

Also, why not

$ grep -v "^ " filename

(slightly faster ;-)

HTH,
	Jan.



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