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 character's I've tried.

except for bizarre shells that make it a comment anywhere in the line.
Most shells so not think this is a comment s#x#y# some do.  "s#x#y#" is
never a comment.

-- 
Ken Foskey
FOSS developer

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