odd sed behavior
Chris Faylor
cgf@cygnus.com
Tue Mar 21 17:32:00 GMT 2000
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 05:14:28PM -0800, Michael O'Brien wrote:
>When using the 20.1 version of cygwin, I'm seeing the following
>strange-ness. From the command prompt:
>
> F:\>sort -u a.msg | sed 's/[\\"]/\\&/g;s/.*/\"&\",/'
> sed: -e expression #1, char 21: Unterminated `s' command
> The system cannot find the path specified.
>
> F:\>sort -u a.msg | sed 's/[\\"]/\\&/g;s/.*/&,/'
>
>Anyone have any ideas why this doesn't work?
I don't believe that B20.1 understands the "'" (apostrophe) quote
character.
cgf
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