# [PATCH] Makefile: Remove excess backslashes from sed

2 messages from 2010-04-09 to 2010-04-09. Participants: Brian Gernhardt.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/23391

## Brian Gernhardt, 2010-04-09 14:41

Subject: [PATCH] Makefile: Remove excess backslashes from sed
Message-ID: <1270824107-26604-1-git-send-email-brian@gernhardtsoftware.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1270824107-26604-1-git-send-email-brian%40gernhardtsoftware.com

```
The sed script that was intended to add lines altering the sys.path
had extra backslashes in them.  Instead resulting in

  import sys;  import os;  sys.path.insert( ... )

It output

  import sys; \ import os; \ sys.path.insert( ... )

Unfortunately this caused python (2.6.1 on OS X 10.6.3) to error

  SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character

Removing two of the backslashes solves this problem.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <brian@gernhardtsoftware.com>
---
 Makefile |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index f0fe351..b9eb1ca 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1632,8 +1632,8 @@ $(patsubst %.py,%,$(SCRIPT_PYTHON)): % : %.py
 	sed -e '1{' \
 	    -e '	s|#!.*python|#!$(PYTHON_PATH_SQ)|' \
 	    -e '}' \
-	    -e 's|^import sys.*|&; \\\
-	           import os; \\\
+	    -e 's|^import sys.*|&; \
+	           import os; \
 	           sys.path.insert(0, os.getenv("GITPYTHONLIB",\
 	                                        "@@INSTLIBDIR@@"));|' \
 	    -e 's|@@INSTLIBDIR@@|'"$$INSTLIBDIR"'|g' \
-- 
1.7.1.rc0.243.g2ce66

```

## Brian Gernhardt, 2010-04-09 14:44

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: Remove excess backslashes from sed
Message-ID: <6D2E98A1-3266-4799-8982-1C54A65CEB3A@silverinsanity.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/6D2E98A1-3266-4799-8982-1C54A65CEB3A%40silverinsanity.com
In-Reply-To: <1270824107-26604-1-git-send-email-brian@gernhardtsoftware.com>

```
This is the same patch as before.  I forgot --dry-run while testing git-send-email.  My apologies.

On Apr 9, 2010, at 10:41 AM, Brian Gernhardt wrote:

> The sed script that was intended to add lines altering the sys.path
> had extra backslashes in them.  Instead resulting in
> 
>  import sys;  import os;  sys.path.insert( ... )
> 
> It output
> 
>  import sys; \ import os; \ sys.path.insert( ... )
> 
> Unfortunately this caused python (2.6.1 on OS X 10.6.3) to error
> 
>  SyntaxError: unexpected character after line continuation character
> 
> Removing two of the backslashes solves this problem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Gernhardt <brian@gernhardtsoftware.com>
> ---
> Makefile |    4 ++--
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index f0fe351..b9eb1ca 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -1632,8 +1632,8 @@ $(patsubst %.py,%,$(SCRIPT_PYTHON)): % : %.py
> 	sed -e '1{' \
> 	    -e '	s|#!.*python|#!$(PYTHON_PATH_SQ)|' \
> 	    -e '}' \
> -	    -e 's|^import sys.*|&; \\\
> -	           import os; \\\
> +	    -e 's|^import sys.*|&; \
> +	           import os; \
> 	           sys.path.insert(0, os.getenv("GITPYTHONLIB",\
> 	                                        "@@INSTLIBDIR@@"));|' \
> 	    -e 's|@@INSTLIBDIR@@|'"$$INSTLIBDIR"'|g' \
> -- 
> 1.7.1.rc0.243.g2ce66
> 
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