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Re: Interesting pipe feature.
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Cc: Earnie Boyd <Cygwin-Developers at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 11:32:42 -0500
- Subject: Re: Interesting pipe feature.
- References: <4.3.1.2.20020402111635.02674130@pop.ma.ultranet.com>
"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
>
> At 11:00 AM 4/2/2002, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >The command
> > `echo $COMSPEC | sed -e 's#\\#/#g#'`
> >works great on NT4 - SP6. However, on NT4 - SP5 and on XPh (XP for
> >home) it issues something similar to
> > bash.exe: C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe: command not found.
> >
> >Any insight on this problem?
>
> In bash on W2K, this gives me:
>
> sed: -e expression #1, char 9: Unknown option to 's'
>
> I had to remove the final '#' after the 'g' to get this to work right.
> Was that a typo Earnie or is that part of the problem you're seeing?
>
That also means you didn't have the back ticks. I'm trying to execute
the value of COMSPEC. Your error is another interesting problem, but
that I believe to be within sed itself.
Earnie.
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