Re: [PATCH] Change sed i\ usage to something Solaris' sed can handle

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Oct 28, 2013, 17:39 UTC
Message-ID: <877gcx1eho.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <1382909208-7716-1-git-send-email-bdwalton@gmail.com>

Ben Walton <bdwalton@gmail.com> writes:

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> diff --git a/t/t4015-diff-whitespace.sh b/t/t4015-diff-whitespace.sh
> index 3fb4b97..0126154 100755
> --- a/t/t4015-diff-whitespace.sh
> +++ b/t/t4015-diff-whitespace.sh
> @@ -145,7 +145,8 @@ test_expect_success 'another test, with --ignore-space-at-eol' 'test_cmp expect
>  test_expect_success 'ignore-blank-lines: only new lines' '
>  	test_seq 5 >x &&
>  	git update-index x &&
> -	test_seq 5 | sed "/3/i \\
> +	test_seq 5 | sed "/3/i\\
> +\
>  " >x &&

Why do you need the \<nl>? Since it is inside double quotes the shell will remove it during expansion.

Andreas.

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