Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] *.[ch]: remove extern from function declarations using sed

> Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > There has been a push to remove extern from function declarations.
> > Finish the job by removing all instances of "extern" for function
> > declarations in headers using sed.
> >
> > This was done by running the following on my system with sed 4.2.2:
> >
> >     $ git ls-files \*.{c,h} | \
> >         grep -v ^compat/ | \
> 
> Lose the backslash.  Your shell knows its own syntax sufficiently
> well, and when you end a line with a pipe, it knows that you haven't
> finished speaking to it and waits for you to give the command
> downstream of the pipe, without being told that you haven't finished
> with a backslash.