<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 # 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 character's I've tried. - Jeff -- GNOME.conf.au 2008: Melbourne, Australia http://live.gnome.org/Melbourne2008 You know the end is nigh when modern art is relegated to the status of "meme". -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
