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minised 1.16 for DOS (Announce)

posted by bencollver , 14.02.2026, 21:47

> There's also a bug in the BCC build (minised.com) that is not in the
> OpenWatcom build (minisedw.com):
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> minised -n -e "$=" file.txt
> sed: no such command as "$="
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> This seems to apply to most commands via -e (e.g. -e "1p" or -e "6q").

The BCC build works if you change the invocation like so:


minised -n -e $= file.txt
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My guess is that Watcom does extra processing of the command-line so it automatically handles double-quotes while DEV86 BCC doesn't.

So to use spaces in sed commands would require moving the commands from the command-line arguments into a file.

Complete thread:

• minised 1.16 for DOS - bencollver, 21.08.2024, 23:59 (Announce)
  • minised 1.16 for DOS - Oso2k, 22.08.2024, 00:39
    • minised 1.16 for DOS - bencollver, 22.08.2024, 01:52
      • minised 1.16 for DOS - Rugxulo, 22.08.2024, 02:10
        • minised 1.16 for DOS - Rugxulo, 25.08.2024, 14:14
          • minised 1.16 for DOS - bencollver, 25.08.2024, 17:20
            • minised 1.16 for DOS - Rugxulo, 26.08.2024, 02:57
            • minised 1.16 for DOS - Rugxulo, 27.08.2024, 10:19
              • minised 1.16 for DOS - bencollver, 27.08.2024, 18:14
              • minised 1.16 for DOS - bencollver, 29.08.2024, 19:08
                • minised 1.16 for DOS - Rugxulo, 30.08.2024, 10:10
                  • minised 1.16 for DOS - bencollver, 30.08.2024, 17:39
                    • minised 1.16 for DOS - Rugxulo, 31.08.2024, 04:51
                      • minised 1.16 for DOS - bencollver, 31.08.2024, 17:20
                      • minised 1.16 for DOS - rr, 31.08.2024, 18:11
                    • minised 1.16 for DOS - Rugxulo, 03.09.2024, 12:53
                      • minised 1.16 for DOS - bencollver, 14.02.2026, 21:47