[gnu.utils.bug] sed - "\\" in target becomes \000

meyering@cs.utexas.edu (Jim Meyering) (02/03/89)

On a sun4-os4,

% echo ab | /public/bin/sed 's/b/\\b/' | od -c
0000000    a  \0   b  \n
0000004
% echo ab | /bin/sed 's/b/\\b/' | od -c
0000000    a   \   b  \n
0000004
%
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Jim Meyering      meyering@cs.utexas.edu