From: Andreas Schwab Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 17:39:47 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change sed i\ usage to something Solaris' sed can handle Message-ID: <877gcx1eho.fsf@igel.home> In-Reply-To: <1382909208-7716-1-git-send-email-bdwalton@gmail.com> Ben Walton writes: > 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 \? Since it is inside double quotes the shell will remove it during expansion. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."