It's possible the mpe version of sed (which is old) is causing the problem.  (I would take anything you can do on *nix
with a grain of salt when trying to do the same on mpe (especially Linux which is likely far newer))

This thread discusses it: http://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-questions-answers/77649-change-specific-line-file.html

Following the thread's example I made a file called test.  Here you can see it from inside the posix shell:

/DONNA/PUB $ cat TEST
coo
coo
ca
choo

and running sed:

/DONNA/PUB $ sed '1c\
> koo ' TEST
koo
coo
ca
choo

so, it seems to me that you need a newline between the two lines.  I'm not exactly sure what you need to do to get it
all to work from the CI.

Having said all that -- if all that you're wanting to do is change the 1st line in a file, why not use standard mpe
methods?  Editor?  Qedit?  Fcopy?         - d

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Donna Hofmeister
Allegro Consultants, Inc.
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> Subject: [HP3000-L] Posix sed command from MPEiX
>
> I am trying to run the POSIX sed command from the MPE shell.  I do
> this:
>
> SED;INFO=" '1c\ another one' INFILE" > OUTFILE
>
> and get this error:
>
> sed: "\" must terminate the "c" command
>
> Which is sort of perplexing me.  What am I doing wrong?
>
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