Patch by Rob Landley, fix "newline after edit command"

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/editors/sed.c b/editors/sed.c
index 6452a321c..3d6d72c68 100644
--- a/editors/sed.c
+++ b/editors/sed.c
@@ -176,8 +176,8 @@ static void parse_escapes(char *dest, const char *string, int len, char from, ch
 
         while(i<len) {
                 if(string[i] == '\\') {
-                        if(string[i+1] == from) {
-                                *(dest++) = to;
+                        if(!to || string[i+1] == from) {
+                                *(dest++) = to ? to : string[i+1];
                                 i+=2;
                                 continue;
                         } else *(dest++)=string[i++];
@@ -403,6 +403,7 @@ static char *parse_cmd_args(sed_cmd_t *sed_cmd, char *cmdstr)
                                 ("only a beginning address can be specified for edit commands");
                 while(isspace(*cmdstr)) cmdstr++;
                 sed_cmd->string = bb_xstrdup(cmdstr);
+                parse_escapes(sed_cmd->string,sed_cmd->string,strlen(cmdstr),0,0);
                 cmdstr += strlen(cmdstr);
         /* handle file cmds: (r)ead */
         } else if(strchr("rw", sed_cmd->cmd)) {