Interesting pipe feature.

[Earnie Boyd]

"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 

That also means you didn't have the back ticks.  I'm trying to execute
the value of COMSPEC.  Your error is another interesting problem, but
that I believe to be within sed itself.

Earnie.

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