I'm looking at some shell scripts a co-worker wrote and there is a line that looks like this:
esc=`echo "$arg" | sed "s/'/'\\\\\\\\''/g"` I can't figure out why any regular expression would need that many backslashes. Can any of you? Thanks, Bryan ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
