Re: sed command

[Hans-Bernhard Broeker]

Tran, Dick <address@hidden> wrote:
> dear helpful,

> i am having difficulty executing the following...

> sed $a\chicken temp

Insufficient quoting, unless you're using a very strange kind of shell.
You'll need something like

        sed '$a\chicken' temp

to avoid the shell trying to interpret $a as a reverence to a
shell/environment variable, and \c as a backslash-escaped sequence.




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