Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <38D83113.476DA178@veritas.com> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 18:33:55 -0800 From: Bob McGowan Organization: VERITAS Software X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: odd sed behavior References: <034a01bf939b$fa1d4760$0a32a8c0@rainsound.com> <20000321203229.C22262@cygnus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Chris Faylor wrote: > > 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 > > -- > Want to unsubscribe from this list? > Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com This is a command prompt (not bash) issue, I believe. The Windows command prompt does not use the single quote (apostrophe) for quoting, only double quotes. The single quotes are probably being passed in to sed. I'd suggest to Michael that you try first starting the bash shell, then run the sed command and see what happens. -- Bob McGowan Staff Software Quality Engineer VERITAS Software rmcgowan@veritas.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com