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-rw-r--r--editors/sed.c11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/editors/sed.c b/editors/sed.c
index ea99dd856..168a69c5b 100644
--- a/editors/sed.c
+++ b/editors/sed.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
* Copyright (C) 1999,2000,2001 by Mark Whitley <markw@codepoet.org>
* Copyright (C) 2002 Matt Kraai
* Copyright (C) 2003 by Glenn McGrath <bug1@optushome.com.au>
+ * Copyright (C) 2003,2004 by Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -410,9 +411,13 @@ static char *parse_cmd_args(sed_cmd_t *sed_cmd, char *cmdstr)
if ((sed_cmd->end_line || sed_cmd->end_match) && sed_cmd->cmd != 'c')
bb_error_msg_and_die
("only a beginning address can be specified for edit commands");
- if (*cmdstr != '\n') /* should not happen */
- bb_error_msg_and_die("A/I/C backslash not followed by NL?");
- cmdstr++; /* skip over the NL following the backslash */
+ for(;;) {
+ if(*cmdstr=='\n' || *cmdstr=='\\') {
+ cmdstr++;
+ break;
+ } else if(isspace(*cmdstr)) cmdstr++;
+ else break;
+ }
sed_cmd->string = bb_xstrdup(cmdstr);
parse_escapes(sed_cmd->string,sed_cmd->string,strlen(cmdstr),0,0);
cmdstr += strlen(cmdstr);