On Wednesday 10 November 2004 7:58 pm, mailing lists at MacTutor wrote: > Rod, > > Take a look at what the shell replacement is actually doing. If you > were to write the line manually it would look like this: > > sed -e 's/\/usr\X11R6\/bin\/xdm/\/usr\/local\/bin\/kdm/g' ... > > Right? > > But the shell doesn't escape the path separators (slashes). You need to > escape them yourself in the variable assignments. Like this, > > KDMLINE='\/usr\/local\/bin\/kdm' > &c > > And if there is only one occurrence per line, then you don't need the > 'g' modifier. > > Hope that helps. > > Alex
Thanks Alex and Miguel... I hate when you look at something for hours and it something you know you should have known! I had at one point had the variables with double qoute and even tried to escape the qoutes!! Thanks again Rod... _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"