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sed guide mistake

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From: Nick Chambers <dtscode <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-sed <at> gnu.org
Subject: sed guide mistake
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 14:52:06 -0500

Hello! In the GNU guide for SED:
https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/sed.html#Introduction, I see
the following:

sed -i 's/hello/world' file.txt

However on my ubuntu machine I get the following:

nchambers <at> dev-server:~$ sed --version
sed (GNU sed) 4.4
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Jay Fenlason, Tom Lord, Ken Pizzini,
and Paolo Bonzini.
GNU sed home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/>.
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>.
E-mail bug reports to: <bug-sed <at> gnu.org>.
nchambers <at> dev-server:~$ cat file.txt
hello world
this is a message
good day!
nchambers <at> dev-server:~$ sed -i 's/hello/world' file.txt
sed: -e expression #1, char 13: unterminated `s' command
nchambers <at> dev-server:~$


it works fine if I do

sed -i 's/hello/world/' file.txt

Thanks all!

Message #8 received at 28881 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: Nick Chambers <dtscode <at> gmail.com>, 28881 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28881: sed guide mistake
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 16:50:55 -0600

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

Hello,

On 2017-10-17 01:52 PM, Nick Chambers wrote:
> Hello! In the GNU guide for SED:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/sed.html#Introduction, I see
> the following:
> 
> sed -i 's/hello/world' file.txt

Thank you for the bug report.

Attached is a fix.
I will soon push it if there are no further comments.

regards,
 - assaf

[0001-doc-fix-missing-slash-in-example.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

Message #11 received at 28881 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 28881 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Nick Chambers <dtscode <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#28881: sed guide mistake
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 16:48:39 -0700

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2017-10-17 01:52 PM, Nick Chambers wrote:
>>
>> Hello! In the GNU guide for SED:
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/sed.html#Introduction, I see
>> the following:
>>
>> sed -i 's/hello/world' file.txt
>
>
> Thank you for the bug report.
>
> Attached is a fix.
> I will soon push it if there are no further comments.

Clearly necessary and correct. Thank you both.

Message #16 received at 28881-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Cc: 28881-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Nick Chambers <dtscode <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#28881: sed guide mistake
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 18:53:16 -0600

On 2017-10-17 05:48 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 3:50 PM, Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2017-10-17 01:52 PM, Nick Chambers wrote:
>>>
>>> sed -i 's/hello/world' file.txt
>>
>> Attached is a fix.
> 
> Clearly necessary and correct. Thank you both.

Thanks, pushed here:
 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/sed.git/commit/?id=9f99a4f51

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