On Sunday 20 May 2007 23:25, Stephane Couture wrote: > Not sure what is going on. > > on x86 : > > busybox sed: > bash-3.00$ zo=`echo za | ./busybox sed s/a/b/`;echo $zo > <----- empty!! Works for me. Are you using CONFIG_STATIC=y and ling against glibc? If not, please send me your .config. -- vda