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bug in sed Invalid preceding regular expression

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From: Peter Smulders <p.j.m.smulders <at> home.nl>
To: 73598 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#73598: Acknowledgement (bug in sed Invalid preceding regular expression)
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 16:50:47 +0200

I think I know already what is the matter. For to work properly double 
escapes are needed, i.e.

 echo ****some string | sed s/\\*\\*\\*\\*//

But I still find it strange ...

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