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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html