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Re: Problem with 'sed' command
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Problem with 'sed' command |
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Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:38:54 +0200 |
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Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:
>> sed 's/Kitten'/Kitten"/g' cat.txt
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>> but it throws and error saying
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>> Unmatched '
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> This is actually a shell error. You are welcome to send requests like
> this to forums such as address@hidden; the short answer is
> to use proper shell quoting, as in
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> sed "s/Kitten\'/Kitten\"/g" cat.txt
One backslash too many. Try
sed "s/Kitten'/Kitten\"/g" instead.
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David Kastrup