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! >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in >> the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html