From: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 23:40:23 GMT
Subject: Re: Help a sed noob
Message-ID: <46B3BCE7.3090509@lsrfire.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <fcaeb9bf0708031622w25ab6e9ev61372169cfc0bd98@mail.gmail.com>

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> There is a construct like this in git-parse-remote.sh which makes
> busybox ash unhappy:
> 
>                 sed -ne '/^URL: */{
>                         s///p
>                         q
>                 }' "$GIT_DIR/remotes/$1"
> 
> It complains about "no previous regexp" while gnu sed is ok. Can
> anyone explain to me what does "s///p" do? GNU Sed info page says
> nothing about empty regexp. If I replace it with "s/\(.*\)/\1/p" then
> I get "URL: " along with the remote path.
> 
> By the way, can we use another construct instead? It would be less
> work for me ;-)

You could manually add the previous regular expression, like this:

		sed -ne '/^URL: */{
			s/^URL: *//p
			q
		}' "$GIT_DIR/remotes/$1"

René