As per the title, busybox sed doesn't work when used with variable substitution. busybox sed works when not used with substitution. I went back to 1.7.4 and it works as it should. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.# xyz=`busybox echo "test"|busybox sed -e "s/t/r/"` 2.# echo $xyz 3. Actual Results: $xyz is empty Expected Results: echo $xyz should display "rest" busybox was emerged with the "static" use flag because I need it for my initramfs. I cannot confirm that the flag is causing problems.
You've already filed this once. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 207735 ***
