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Re: possible sed bug
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: possible sed bug |
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Sun, 14 Oct 2001 17:21:44 -0400 |
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"Chris Cowsley" <address@hidden> wrote:
> text=mystuffhere
> echo $text
> date +%Y.%m.%d\ %a\ %X\ . | sed s/\ ./\ $text/
> date +%Y.%m.%d\ %a\ %X\ . | sed s/\ \./\ $text/
> date +%Y.%m.%d\ %a\ %X\ . | sed "s/ ./ $text/"
date +%Y.%m.%d\ %a\ %X\ . | sed 's/ \./ $text/'
The "." needs to be backslash-escaped, but sh will strip the backslash
if it isn't either quoted or itself escaped with another backslash.
paul