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Old 05-26-2009
JerryHone JerryHone is offline
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"Cascading backslashes" a.k.a "Leaning toothpicks"!


Code:
var=`echo "Hello\,World" | sed 's/\\\,/,/'`; echo $var --> "Hello,World"

seems to work!

It's because the backticks are spawning another subshell, but the original backslashes have already been interpreted by the first one.