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<P><FONT SIZE=2>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:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>(This should be a single line of input, but I'm sure it will wrap when emailed):</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>sed -f modifyhtm.txt "\Web Configuration\Default_installing.htm" >results\Default_installing.htm</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>The error reported is:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>'sed: file modifyhtm.txt line 1: No previous regular expression'</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>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.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>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.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Thanks for your help,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Dwight Neal</FONT>
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