On Saturday, September 14, 2002, at 04:43 PM, Greg Matheson wrote:
SUBJ = `printf %s "$SUBJ" | sed 's,\\\\,\\\\\\\\,g; \
s/&/\\\\&/g; \
s,/,\\\\/,g'`
So you're trying to preserve the metacharacters by quoting them.
Strange sed syntax there with the colons and lack of -e for extra
expressions. I think 'sed' has been deleted from 2nd and 3rd
lines here.
No, that's ONE sed expression (note the \'s at the end of the line)
sed 's,\\\\,\\\\\\\\,g; s/&/\\\\&/g; s,/,\\\\/,g'
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