#434 MSYS 20111123 does strange things with backquotes

[Jim Michaels]

try

echo "`echo $PROGRAMW6432|sed -e 's/\\/\//g'`/7-Zip/7z.exe" 

I get

sed: -e expression #1, char 8: unterminated `s' command
/7-Zip/7z.exe

[Jim Michaels]

do I need to use cat or some other *nix tool?

[Jim Michaels]

Jim-Michaels@Jim-Michaels-PC ~
$ echo `echo $PROGRAMW6432|sed -e 's/\\/\//g'>/var/tmp/7zpath;echo /7-Zip/7z.exe>/var/tmp/7zexe;cat /var/tmp/7zpath /var/tmp/7zexe`
sh: /var/tmp/7zpath: No such file or directory
sh: /var/tmp/7zexe: No such file or directory
cat: /var/tmp/7zpath: No such file or directory
cat: /var/tmp/7zexe: No such file or directory


Jim-Michaels@Jim-Michaels-PC ~
$ echo `mkdir -p /var/tmp;echo $PROGRAMW6432|sed -e 's/\\/\//g'>/var/tmp/7zpath;echo /7-Zip/7z.exe>/var/tmp/7zexe;cat /var/tmp/7zpath /var/tmp/7zexe`
sed: -e expression #1, char 8: unterminated `s' command
/7-Zip/7z.exe

Jim-Michaels@Jim-Michaels-PC ~
$ echo `mkdir -p /var/tmp;echo $PROGRAMW6432|sed -r -e 's/\\/\//g'>/var/tmp/7zpath;echo /7-Zip/7z.exe>/var/tmp/7zexe;cat /var/tmp/7zpath /var/tmp/7zexe;rm  /var/tmp/7zpath /var/tmp/7zexe`
sed: -e expression #1, char 8: unterminated `s' command
/7-Zip/7z.exe

Jim-Michaels@Jim-Michaels-PC ~
$

this is also a problem, /var/tmp was never created.

s/\/\//g looks to be to be a completely valid sed syntax. it replaces \ with /

[Alexx83]

MSYS is related to mingw.org site. Post your issue on it's bug tracker.

As alternative you can try look into MSYS2 project:
https://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/
http://msys2.github.io

Regards,
Alexey.