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From: meyering@cs.utexas.edu (Jim Meyering)
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Subject: sed - "\\" in target becomes \000
Message-ID: <157@ai.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 3 Feb 89 04:36:47 GMT
Distribution: gnu
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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On a sun4-os4,

% echo ab | /public/bin/sed 's/b/\\b/' | od -c
0000000    a  \0   b  \n
0000004
% echo ab | /bin/sed 's/b/\\b/' | od -c
0000000    a   \   b  \n
0000004
%
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Jim Meyering      meyering@cs.utexas.edu