Re: grep "\" ... how

1999-06-11 Thread Alvis W Tabner III
On Fri, Jun 11, 1999 at 07:09:45AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > I need to write a script to replace '\'s with '/', but how can I get > grep to accept '\' as a regular expression (it assumes it to be line > continue character, at least from the sh prompt)? You can use sed (if I understand you cor

Re: cat'ing a binary does some really funky things with my display

1999-06-09 Thread Alvis W. Tabner III
On Wed, Jun 09, 1999 at 05:33:22PM -0500, Mark Wright wrote: > Every once in a while, I will mistakenly 'cat' a binary. This almost always > results in my console going haywire. Now most text appears as graphic > characters (blocks, arrows, lines - all that extended ascii stuff). I have > no ide