Subject: sed escape bug
From: Jacob Young <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 08:24:33 -0400
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

The escape '\c\' fails at the end of a regex.

~$ echo a | sed -e 's/a/\c\/' | hexdump -c
sed: -e expression #1, char 8: unterminated `s' command
~$ echo a | sed -e 's/a/\c\b/' | hexdump -c
0000000 034   b  \n
0000003
~$ sed --version
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