1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/editors/sed.c b/editors/sed.c
index c97092a5c..ea99dd856 100644
--- a/editors/sed.c
+++ b/editors/sed.c
@@ -410,7 +410,9 @@ static char *parse_cmd_args(sed_cmd_t *sed_cmd, char *cmdstr)
                 if ((sed_cmd->end_line || sed_cmd->end_match) && sed_cmd->cmd != 'c')
                         bb_error_msg_and_die
                                 ("only a beginning address can be specified for edit commands");
-                while(isspace(*cmdstr)) cmdstr++;
+                if (*cmdstr != '\n') /* should not happen */
+                  bb_error_msg_and_die("A/I/C backslash not followed by NL?");
+                cmdstr++; /* skip over the NL following the backslash */
                 sed_cmd->string = bb_xstrdup(cmdstr);
                 parse_escapes(sed_cmd->string,sed_cmd->string,strlen(cmdstr),0,0);
                 cmdstr += strlen(cmdstr);