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 it.

Quiz.
1. what words from /usr/share/dict/words are valid sed expressions?
   syzygy is one! 

2. craft a sed expression to search for valid sed expressions from
    /usr/share/dict/words


Matt



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