Bug 25629 – sed parser broken ver 4.0.7

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andreas Faust 2003-07-31 06:36:13 UTC]

sed parser doesn't recognize end of parameters ..


bash-2.05b$ pwd | sed 's/\//\\\//g'
\/home\/medic\/jobs\/scripts

bash-2.05b$ TEST=`pwd | sed 's/\//\\\//g'`
sed: -e expression #1, char 9: Unknown option to `s'

bash-2.05b$ sed -V
GNU sed version 4.0.7

[Comment 1 Tavis Ormandy (RETIRED) 2003-07-31 07:16:56 UTC]

That behaviour is correct, you should change the delimiter.

TEST=`pwd | sed 's#\/#\\\/#g'`

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2003-07-31 15:26:03 UTC]

the issue is your quoting ... 
if you change the `` to $() it works fine 
 
thus sed is not broken