Re: sed

[Stephane Chazelas]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 02:32:28PM -0800, Conner, Neil wrote:
[...]
> --Taking cues from Stephane's first email, my sed script looks like this now 
> and is working.
> 
> #! /bin/ksh
> exec 4< input
> read -r -u4 TEMP
> ALERT=`echo $TEMP | sed s/^K/\\\\\\\\v/g`
> print $ALERT 
[...]

You didn't take enough cues though, as you're still using echo
and are still leaving your variable expansions unquoted.

-- 
Stéphane