From: Tormen <quickhelp@gmail.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sed script fails to run in dash
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 01:14:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <528FF349.9020804@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <528FAFCB.5090807@redhat.com>
On 22/11/13 20:26, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 11/22/2013 11:11 AM, Tormen wrote:
>
>> 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 ? :(
> Because $'' is not (yet) in POSIX. It will be required in a future
> release, but dash hasn't implemented it yet.
>
> http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=249
Now I get how this script works ;)
Thanks !! :)
!!! And also thanks to all the other answers !!! - really appreciated! :)))
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-23 0:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-22 18:11 sed script fails to run in dash Tormen
2013-11-22 19:20 ` Seb
2013-11-22 19:25 ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-11-22 19:26 ` Eric Blake
2013-11-23 0:14 ` Tormen [this message]
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