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

Junio Hamano junio at twinsun.com
Thu Apr 1 19:18:48 UTC 2004


>>>>> "EA" == Erik Andersen <andersen at codepoet.org> writes:

>> 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.

EA> Sorry about that.  Thanks for checking and fixing it.

Same here, sorry about that.  I was only looking at GNU sed info
pages and SUSv3 manual pages, both of which only talked about
the 'a' command immediately followed by a backslash and a
newline, followed by a block of text each of whose internal
newline is quoted with a backslash.  I did not realize GNU sed
allowed the usage you showed above.



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