Re: sed ssed bug with the windows binaries

[Guillaume Frambourg]

Hi again

Found a workarround :
command :
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sed -e "s/\"//g" "test.txt>test2.txt"
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Works as intended.

Sry for disturbing.

2009/11/13 Guillaume Frambourg <address@hidden>

> Hi,
>
> When you try to replace " with some character that is not escaped, it
> works. But it won't accept to save the output in another file.
>
> ie :
>
> test.txt contains
>
> "hello"
>
> Working sed is :
> --------------------------------------------------------
> sed -e "s/\"//g" test.txt
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> it outputs :
> --------------------------------------------------------
> hello
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> But if you try :
> --------------------------------------------------------
> sed -e "s/\"//g" test.txt > test2.txt
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> it outputs :
> --------------------------------------------------------
> hello
> sed: can't read >: Invalid argument
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> Also trying :
> --------------------------------------------------------
> sed -e "s/\"/\"test/g" test.txt > test2.txt
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> it outputs "testhello"test into test2.txt
>
>
> So using an escaped character in search string but not in replacestring
> breaks the command line interpretation.
>
> Thanks
>