Why execute_process failed escape sequence \/?

[hce]

Hi,

I can most of shell commands in execute_process(), but cmake failed at following errors when I added "sed 's/^.\///g'" to execute_process():

Syntax error in cmake code, when parsing string 's/^.\///g', Invalid escape sequence \/, Call Stack ...

But without the escape sequence \/, the shell command could not run, how can I make the execute_process() run shell command with escape sequence \/ ?

Thank you.

[Rolf Eike Beer]

> Hi,
>
> I can most of shell commands in execute_process(), but cmake failed at
> following errors when I added "sed 's/^.\///g'" to execute_process():
>
> Syntax error in cmake code, when parsing string 's/^.\///g', Invalid
> escape
> sequence \/, Call Stack ...
>
> But without the escape sequence \/, the shell command could not run, how
> can
> I make the execute_process() run shell command with escape sequence \/ ?

You must escape the backslash, so it doesn't get stripped by the CMake
parser: 's/^.\\///g'

Bonus trick: you can avoid it altogether by just using a different
character as delimiter: 's,^./,,g'

Just wondering: do you want to work on some find output? Then you also
need to escape the ".".

Eike
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[hce]

Thanks Eike.

Cheers.