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> On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Aaron Denney wrote:
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> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > sed -e 's/-'\n'//g' <infile >outfile
> > >
> > > and although the file gets slightly smaller (I didn't try to find out
> just
> > > what had been removed) none of the hyphonated text is corrected.
> >
> > This isn't quite the appropriate venue for such questions, as it is
> > a general unix/sed question and not very specific to Debian. In the
> > future try the newsgroup comp.unix.programmer or comp.unix.questions.
>
> You are absolutely correct, and as a developer I should probably know
> better. My only excuse is that I spend a lot of time on this list, and
> consider the folks here my friends. This leaves little time to go
> exploring other venues, and besides, I'd rather ask a favor of a friend
> than of some stranger somewhere else ;-)
>
> Personally, I find the "off topic" threads on this list are often very
> interesting. I almost always learn some new twist or trick that I had not
> seen before, so it is my hope that, when I have problems, the solution may
> be valuable to others as well.
>
> >
> > Your problem is that the inner quotes don't add another level quoting, but
> > take away another level of quoting. To be a little clearer:
> >
> > > sed -e 's/'\t'/ /g' <infile >outfile
> > ^^ ^^^^ are the quoted parts.
> >
> > The \t is not quoted, but is interpreted by your shell, which replaces
> the \t
> > with an actual t. If you take out the inner quotes, it should work:
> > sed -e 's/\t/ /g' <infile >outfile
> >
> > This will pass an actual \t to sed, which will interpret it as a tab
> character.
> >
> I think that I will never understand the ins and outs of these quoting
> issues. However, this doesn't provide any better fix for my problem.
> Removing the inner quotes results in sed carefully replacing all t
> characters by the space character, and doing nothing to the tabs. (This
> was, after all, my first try, before I went looking at examples and tried
> the inner quotes. Your assurances didn't make it work any better the
> second or third time I tried it either.)
>
You should do it this way (if I understand you problem correctly):
sed -e 's/ //g' .......
^^^^^^^
This is the "quoted" tab -- you can enter it on bash's command line by
prefixing TAB with control-v.
Alex Goncharov
> If all that sounds like whining and complaining, I want to make it quite
> clear that I greatly appreciate the help provided.
>
> Thanks,
>
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