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Re: Interesting pipe feature.
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- To: Earnie Boyd <Cygwin-Developers at cygwin dot com>, Earnie Boyd <Cygwin-Developers at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 11:18:06 -0500
- Subject: Re: Interesting pipe feature.
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?
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
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