From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 04:56:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/4] *.[ch]: remove extern from function declarations using sed
Message-ID: <xmqq8sw02e7y.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <0ebda4725297df64661bc6749b1a1c4c93cb76e0.1556062365.git.liu.denton@gmail.com>

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.