Re: [Mingw-msys] Something funny with sed

On 3/30/2002 at 9:17 PM Andrew Begel wrote:

>There's something funny going on with sed in MSYS 1.0.6. 
>
>
>After some experimentation, it does appear to be completely related to
>the line endings in the file. If the source file has DOS line endings
>\r\n, sed doesn't properly find regexps that occur at the end of the
>line ($); if the source file has unix line endings, even MSYS' sed
>behaves properly. 
>

Hmm...  I'll have to take a look at the sed source and fix it for \r\n line
endings.  Thanks for the report.  In the meantime perhaps a preliminary
regexp of '\r$' would help.

I first thought you were going to report something I found yesterday with
the "XP For Home" OS and sed.  The following doesn't seem to want to work:
  `echo $COMSPEC | sed -e 's#\\#/#g#'`
The result is that I get the \ version returned.  I can make it work on the
command line but not in the evaluated script.  I'll have to research this
some more also.

Earnie.


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