[BusyBox] [PATCH] keep initial leading whitespace in sed 'a' cmd (1.0.0-pre8)

Erik Andersen andersen at codepoet.org
Thu Apr 1 09:27:18 UTC 2004


On Thu Apr 01, 2004 at 01:44:16AM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 March 2004 05:42, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > On Tue Mar 30, 2004 at 11:26:51AM -0800, Junio Hamano wrote:
> > > The sed command in busybox 1.0.0-pre8 loses leading whitespace
> > > in 'a' command ('i' and 'c' commands are also affected).  A
> > > patch to fix this is attached at the end of this message.
> >
> > Applied thanks,
> >
> >  -Erik
> 
> Actually, you just broke:
> 
> sed -i "/^config setup/a fred" ipsec.conf
> 
> Which works in gnu sed.  (And is _supposed_ to strip all the whitespace before 
> "fred".)  For that matter, you broke:
> 
> sed -i -e "/^config setup/a \\" -e "   fred" ipsec.conf
> 
> I.E. there can legally be spaces between the a and the backslash at the end of 
> the line.

Sorry about that.  Thanks for checking and fixing it.

 -Erik

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