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-rw-r--r--editors/sed.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/editors/sed.c b/editors/sed.c
index c97092a5c..ea99dd856 100644
--- a/editors/sed.c
+++ b/editors/sed.c
@@ -410,7 +410,9 @@ 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");
- while(isspace(*cmdstr)) cmdstr++;
+ 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 */
sed_cmd->string = bb_xstrdup(cmdstr);
parse_escapes(sed_cmd->string,sed_cmd->string,strlen(cmdstr),0,0);
cmdstr += strlen(cmdstr);