It seems than at Wed, 1 Oct 2008 17:52:32 -0700, Jim wrote: > > The purpose of the sed script is escaping me. > > I hate leading zeroes. Sed is used to eliminate them. > > > Is there some magic I am missing out on? > > The shell-command emacs function uses a shell to process the > string. Sed itself wants parenthesis, so you have to escape > them to get them through the shell since it's a shell-special > character. And you have to escape the backslashes too to get > them through emacs to the shell. (Or through make or any > other environment except an interactive shell.) Just all part > of the usual scripting fun.
Got it! Sed needs the backstroke before the paren, but bash would mangle it, so for sed-inside-a-bash-call the escape needs to be escaped! Most of my hacks are not that deep. So far most of mine are "plain and simple" bourne shell scripts. > > And why not use ISO-8601 date format? > > Don't like it, that's all. Hmm. To me it's like SI. Not what I grew up with, but it is so sensible and practical the I've decided it's worth the effort to retrain. But then I type in dvorak.... -- Philip _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
