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Re: config.status - robust sed substitutions
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Robert Anderson |
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Re: config.status - robust sed substitutions |
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26 Feb 2003 16:40:03 -0800 |
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 16:34, Robert Anderson wrote:
> However, note that _any_ new choice of delimiter will not only fail for
> the case of the chosen character, but will also fail for the characters
> '@' and '\' which are always metacharacters on the RHS of a sed
> expression. I've seen '@' in particular in pathnames out in the wild;
> it's a good prefix to get files to sort to the top of an 'ls'.
>
> With a preprocessing step, you can solve all three problems
> simultaneously (arbitrary delimiter, '@', and '\').
Gah. s/@/&/. Or s/@/\\&/, actually. :)
Bob
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