On Fri, 1 Dec 2017, Johannes Sixt wrote: >>> This doesn't work, unfortunately. When $(pathsep) is ';', we get an >>> incomplete sed expression because ';' is also a command separator in the sed language. >> >> Funny, I tried this also with ';' as pathsep, and it worked in the Git for >> Windows SDK... > > My ancient sed vs. your modern sed, perhaps? I can check this on Monday. If you wouldn't mind, that would be much appreciated. Did you actually observe this issue, or is it just coming up in review? I am not a `sed` wizard, but perhaps the tool is ignoring the semicolon because it's in the middle of the "s" expression? The shell may similarly be ignoring it because it's nested in between single-quotes? -Dan