sed problem

[wwp]

Hello Christofer C.,


On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:12:19 -0500 "Christofer C. Bell" <christofer.c.bell at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/20/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> > Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> > >
> > > You don't need to escape anything, just use a different limiter:
> > >
> > > $ echo "/Linux/update" | sed 's:/:V:g'
> >
> > The replacement text wasn't "V", it was "\/", which *does* need escaping.
> 
> Ah, ok.  Well, in that case it's still easier to just use a different
> delimiter to avoid confusion: ;-)
> 
> $ echo "/Linux/update" | sed 's:/:\\/:g'

Eheh yes, that's why I provided both examples (and I even remember of a
complex sed expression in which it has been difficult to find an available
delimiter, but that's marginal).


Regards,

-- 
wwp
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