On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 02:43:41PM -0700, Bryan Murdock wrote:
> 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?

Hmmm... perhaps it is a self-referential script?  :-P

Mike

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