konglu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > As you pointed out, the problem seems to come from this line > tmp=$(sed "/^pick .*/i\exec $i" "$1") > I think that the dquote here doesn't work on MacOS, though i've > never tried it. I don't see a reason why it wouldn't. Anyway, quotes are managed by the shell, and in our case, sed is the one complaining. I experimented a bit, and it seems Mac OS's sed insists in having a \ and a newline after i (it seems POSIX requires it too). In your code above, the \ is included in double quotes, so you have to escape it. This snippet works reliably on my Linux machine and on a Mac OS X one: x=$(echo 'pick foo' | sed -e "/pick/i\\ exec $1") echo "$x" > Anyway, even if it's not the problem, this kind of quoting is quite > odd so it will be removed in the next patch Be careful, you do need quoting around $i. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html