On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Andrew Ardill <andrew.ard...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Have you tried backslash escaping the backslash? double escaping?
>
> I don't know how many are required, but I would try first \S, then
> \\S, then \\\\S, etc
> Regards,
>
> Andrew Ardill

When i do that it stops understanding \S* as regexp so it removes only
"@", while i need to remove from @ to the next whitespace

Thanks,
Eugene



>
> On 30 October 2013 12:34, Eugene Sajine <eugu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need some advice about creating the git command alias:
>>
>> I have this as the command:
>>
>> git log --pretty=format:"%h %ad %ae %s" --date=short | sed 's/@\S*//g'
>>
>>
>> The purpose is to cut off the email domain and keep only username.
>>
>> I'm trying to create this as the alias:
>>
>>
>> lg = !sh -c 'git log --pretty=format:"%h %ad %ae %s" --date=short |
>> sed 's/@\S*//g'' -
>>
>> but it complains about the \S and i'm failing to come up with the
>> escape sequence to make it work right.
>>
>> I know i can work around that by creating shell alias, but it is not
>> what i would like to have.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks!
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