Re: MinGW issue

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Brad wrote:
> OpenBSD..
>
> $ echo hello | sed -e 1iEXPORTS
> sed: 1: "1iEXPORTS": command i expects \ followed by text

Right.  The i\ command is as old as dirt since it is documented in 
Kernighan and Pike's "The Unix Programming Environment".

With syntax modifications

sed 4.0.9 (cygwin):

% echo hello | sed -e '1i\EXPORTS'
EXPORTS
hello

sed 3.02 (mingw):

$ echo hello | sed -e '1i\EXPORTS'
sed: -e expression #2, char 4: Extra characters after command

Solaris sed:

% echo hello | /usr/xpg4/bin/sed -e '1i\EXPORTS'
sed: command garbled: 1i\EXPORTS

FreeBSD sed:

% echo hello | /usr/bin/sed -e '1i\EXPORTS'
sed: 1: "1i\EXPORTS
": extra characters after \ at the end of i command

regardless, this code fragment only needs to work under Cygwin and 
MinGW so some other means needs to be found to insert a line before 
the first line, but it doesn't need to be very portable.

Bob
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