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From: Tormen <quickhelp@gmail.com>
To: dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: sed script fails to run in dash
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 19:11:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <528F9E5E.4020807@gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

I am puzzled and don't know why this command does not work with dash (I
am currently using the debian stable (v7.2) version of dash (v0.5.7-3)):

echo 1>/tmp/x; reponse=$( sed -e $(wc -l </tmp/x)$'{w/dev/stdout\n;d}'
-i /tmp/x ); echo "reponse='$reponse'"

but also just this line:

    sed -e 1$'{w/dev/stdout\n;d}' -i /tmp/x

in a dash script will yield the error message:

    sed: -e expression #1, char 2: unknown command: `$'

But why ? :(

I would be really grateful for any explanation.
Thanks a lot in advance for any hint!


Tormen


P.S.: The source for the above line is:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13804967/bash-pop-lines-in-a-file

             reply	other threads:[~2013-11-22 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-22 18:11 Tormen [this message]
2013-11-22 19:20 ` sed script fails to run in dash Seb
2013-11-22 19:25 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-11-22 19:26 ` Eric Blake
2013-11-23  0:14   ` Tormen

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