Adam Vande More wrote: > Dan Nelson wrote: >>> I had actually tried that too: >>> >>> > sed -e '5i\ >>> ? test' text.txt >>> sed: 1: "5i >>> test >>> ": command i expects \ followed by text >>> >> >> I don't see a backslash in the error message, which means something >> ate it. Are you running this command from something other than the >> commandline or a >> plain sh script? If you're calling this from another scripting language >> (via system() or popen() or something similar), you probably have to >> double >> the backslash so whatever's parsing it out passes one through to sed. >> > This is being executed from stock tcsh > > Progress is being made as it works in the test now with the \\ however > I'm running into more things I don't understand in regards to what I > need to escape in my input string. > >> sed -e '5i\\ > include(\'/usr/home/www/imp-sites/default_inventory.php\');' test.txt > Unmatched '. > > I also tried escaping ( ) . / to no avail.
I don't know for sure under tcsh, but did you try double quotes as I suggested? Using them may prevent the normally special characters from being interpolated. If it doesn't work, then hopefully escaping them will. Steve _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"