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Re: sed and less/greater than symbols
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: sed and less/greater than symbols |
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Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:13:51 +0200 (IST) |
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Gregory D. Henderson wrote:
> I've been trying to use sed (v3.02) to operate on HTML files. It appears that
> the "<" and ">" cannot be used in substitutions.
You should be able to use them by escaping them.
> Escaping the symbols shouldn't be necessary,
??? AFAIK, these are meta-characters in GNU Sed, so why is it wrong to
escape them?
> but even that doesn't seem to help.
Please post the exact command line or script fragment that will show
how did you escape them.