Re: [dev] print utility

[Noah Birnel]

On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 04:29:59PM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote:
> 
> What is the shortest shell command you can write,
> that replaces $A with $B in a text stream for any A and B?
> 
A1="$(printf '%s' "$A" | sed 's,",\\",g; s,\\,\\\\,g')"
B1="$(printf '%s' "$B" | sed 's,",\\",g; s,\\,\\\\,g')"
awk '{ gsub("'"$A1"'", "'"$B1"'"); print }' textfile

A little gross, maybe. So is the question.