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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Ben Walton <bdwalton@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change sed i\ usage to something Solaris' sed can handle
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 22:59:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y55dys2o.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP30j15+E4cz_kwJwaSH7-3agwC5J3jGNfaixSUg2=8xAzZoQg@mail.gmail.com> (Ben Walton's message of "Mon, 28 Oct 2013 21:10:46 +0000")

Ben Walton <bdwalton@gmail.com> writes:

> It's an escape. Without it, sed throws:

The shell removes it before sed can see it.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-28 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-27 21:26 [PATCH] Change sed i\ usage to something Solaris' sed can handle Ben Walton
2013-10-28 17:39 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-10-28 21:10   ` Ben Walton
2013-10-28 21:59     ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2013-10-30 19:30     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-11-03 13:08       ` Ben Walton

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