Re: sed bug?

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Scott Hall <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm using your sed utility and am having a problem with handling a list of
> input files.
>
> If I include quotes around the input path (which I need if there is a
> space in the path), it results in an "Invalid Argument" error.
>
> example:
> sed -f x.sed "..\test files\*.txt"
> sed: can't read ..\test files\*.txt: Invalid argument
>

sed isn't the one doing the expansion of *.txt to a list of filenames, it
is your shell. Then when sed runs it sees a list of filenames passed as
arguement.

If you put *.txt   inside quotes you tell the shell not to expand this list
and sed receives a literal *.txt that it can't interpret.