On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 10:35 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
My muscle memory now prefers # as a sed delimiter instead of /... which can
be problematic with some implementations, but not in the imporant ones (GNU
sed, vim, etc). ;-) # tends to be safe in more contexts than most of the
other
david wrote:
I want to insert / into a substitution.
Why am i getting an unknown option even though exactly the same
construction works if i use it from a script file?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test $ cat foo
foo is barred # test file
[EMAIL
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 05:11:32PM +0800, Deeþan Chakravarthy wrote:
$sed -e s|foo|/bar|g foo
The above command works fine. You can use any character as delimiter. I
chose to use | .
My favourite alternative to / is comma, it doesn't need you to hit shift
and you are not often searching for
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 20:28 +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 05:11:32PM +0800, Deeþan Chakravarthy wrote:
$sed -e s|foo|/bar|g foo
The above command works fine. You can use any character as delimiter. I
chose to use | .
Lesson #83
man doesn't mention delimiter
david wrote:
man doesn't mention delimiter options, but info does.
looks like I need to get familiar with info
man is easy to use.
info is abominable.
In fact I have done 'info info' more times than 'info any_thing_else'.
Mike
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On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 10:00 +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
david wrote:
man doesn't mention delimiter options, but info does.
looks like I need to get familiar with info
man is easy to use.
info is abominable.
In fact I have done 'info info' more times than 'info any_thing_else'.
david wrote:
couldn't agree more
but if the info isn't in man, then I have to man-age info :(
The 'pinfo' program (avaliable on at least Debian and Ubuntu) is
one of the better info readers that I've seen.
Erik
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On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 11:50 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
david wrote:
couldn't agree more
but if the info isn't in man, then I have to man-age info :(
The 'pinfo' program (avaliable on at least Debian and Ubuntu) is
one of the better info readers that I've seen.
excellent!
On Thursday 27 September 2007 10:00:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
man doesn't mention delimiter options, but info does.
looks like I need to get familiar with info
man is easy to use.
info is abominable.
In fact I have done 'info info' more times than 'info any_thing_else'.
Yet another
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 27 September 2007 10:00:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
man doesn't mention delimiter options, but info does.
looks like I need to get familiar with info
man is easy to use.
info is abominable.
In fact I have done 'info info' more times than 'info
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 23:26 +1000, Zhasper wrote:
You don't have to use / as a delimiter. Use something else.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat foo
foo is barred
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sed [EMAIL PROTECTED]@/[EMAIL PROTECTED] foo
/bar is barred
that's excellent! I had no idea you could do that.
quote who=david
that's excellent! I had no idea you could do that. Ask SLUG and you get
all these great answers.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test $ sed -e sxfoox/barxg foo
/bar is barred
That sort of thing will save a lot of messing around with escaping
characters.
My muscle memory now prefers
I want to insert / into a substitution.
Why am i getting an unknown option even though exactly the same
construction works if i use it from a script file?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test $ cat foo
foo is barred # test file
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test $ sed
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 22:49 +1000, david wrote:
I've noticed the same problem applies to using in the replacement on
the cli. It seems that the replacement part doesn't recognise a
backslash. Have I missed something?
first slash is absorbed by shell and therefore sed does not get it. use
I always find it much safer to use an explicit in-line script idiom such as
:-
sed -e 'the-script-i-want-sed-to-run' foo
The ''s make sure that the shell doesn't get first byte of the cherry
On 9/24/07, david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to insert / into a substitution.
Why am i getting
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 23:00 +1000, Martin Visser wrote:
I always find it much safer to use an explicit in-line script idiom
such as :-
sed -e 'the-script-i-want-sed-to-run' foo
The ''s make sure that the shell doesn't get first byte of the cherry
I kinda tried that, but man sed doesn't
You don't have to use / as a delimiter. Use something else.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat foo
foo is barred
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sed [EMAIL PROTECTED]@/[EMAIL PROTECTED] foo
/bar is barred
On 24/09/2007, david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to insert / into a substitution.
Why am i getting an
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