Bug of bash with sed operation ???
Chris Faylor
cgf@cygnus.com
Tue Jun 20 07:47:00 GMT 2000
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:35:03AM -0400, Zhiguang Qian wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Here is the sample.
>
>>>export MY=\aaa\bbb.c
>>>echo $MY | sed -e 's#\\#\/#g'
>>> /aaa/bbb.c
>>>out=`echo $MY | sed -e 's#\\#\/#g'`
>>> sed: -e expression #1, char 8: Unterminated `s' command
>
>Try it.
I did. Have you tried it on UNIX? Same effect. It's not a bug.
Your \\ is being eaten inside the ` ... ` command. You probably need
to double up on these when you are using them inside of backquotes (or
" style quotes for that matter).
cgf
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