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To: John Utz <spaz@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: Is something amiss in sed on 2.0 -R ? 
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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 01:46:10 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
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> cat xxfoo | sed -e s/$/\\/ > xxfoo.c
> sed: 1: "s/$/\/": unterminated substitute in regular expression

:-)

Try sed -e 's/$/\\/'

					Jordan