Re: Re3: Suspected bug with gawk sed function and with sed

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Disposition-notification-to: Robert Greiner <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:24:18 -0400
> From: Robert Greiner <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Greiner, Bob (Verizon)" <address@hidden>
> 
> I want to change the ? in my input file into a " as follows:
> 
>       sed "s/^\?/\"/" junkin.txt > junkout.txt
> 
> Running the above command from the command console does *not* work, at
> least not on my machine (Windows XP SP 3).

It does work for me.  It replaces every ? at beginning of line with a
".

> I got my sed and gawk files from the following site:
> 
>       http://sourceforge.net/projects/unxutils

That's a very old (and buggy) set of ports.  You can find newer ones
on the GnuWin32 site.