Fails to remove html tag

[Vagelis-Prokopiou]

The following fail:

sd '</span>' '' file.txt
sd -s '</span>' '' file.txt

The respective sed command works:

 sed 's|</span>||g' file.txt

Platform: Windows
sd version: 0.7.6
Executed from within Git Bash.

PS: I also tried various combinations with escaping the special characters, but nothing worked.

[CosmicHorrorDev]

I'm not able to repro this with v0.7.6 on Linux. Let me know if you're still able to reproduce this and if other replacements also fail

[Vagelis-Prokopiou]

Hi @CosmicHorrorDev.
Yes. Still reproducible (sd 0.7.6).

As I said, this is reproducible on Windows, through Git Bash.

The following do not work.

echo -n '<span>Hi</span>' | sd '</span>' ''
echo -n '<span>Hi</span>' | sd -s '</span>' ''
echo -n '////' | sd '/' ''

The following work:

echo -n '<span>Hi</span>' | sed 's|</span>||'
echo -n '////' | sed 's|/||g'

See the image:

[CosmicHorrorDev]

Thanks for verifying!

I'll try to get windows with git bash setup, so that I can dig in more

[Vagelis-Prokopiou]

I have an intuition that it may be related to the / character.
This character has also given me problems with other tools too (see BurntSushi/ripgrep#1973).
The questions though is, why do sed and grep work, whereas sd and rg don't?
It is interesting.