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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 07:30:45 -0700
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Comments: In reply to Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
        "Re: greps pipes and eval bad patterns" (Oct 26,  6:36am)
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On Oct 26,  6:36am, Ray Andrews wrote:
}
} Question: Why can't we have nothing on the right side?

Because then you have an incomplete command, syntax-wise.  You can write

    echo the command starts here |
	sed s/start/end/