Stephen Zander wrote: > Aaron Denney wrote: > > 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. > > Lignten up :) Dale provides immense assistance to this list; he deserves > a little slack.
I tried not to be harsh in chewing him out... Actually people in those newsgroups are more likely to answer questions correctly. This goes for a lot of stuff on debian-user actually, even some of the more ``on-topic'' posts. (Well not those newsgroups in particular, necessarily.) And I did try to help, even if I wasn't much help. > > 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 > > characte > r. > > Actually, no. Bash requires $'\t' for the literal insertion of > an escaped character (and no, I didn't know. I looked it up :)) This is what I get for answering without actually trying something out. :) Apologies to all, especially Dale, for the gratuitous use of bandwidth. The other posters seem to have helped you though. -- Aaron Denney -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
