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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Strange sed behaviour Post 302165264 by ghostdog74 on Thursday 7th of February 2008 09:07:14 AM
Old 02-07-2008
my guess:
\| is used in sed (gnu) as alternation. therefore
Code:
# echo "a.bc" | sed -e 's/\|/\\|/g'
\|a\|.\|b\|c\|

seem to say "blank" or "blank" (or null?) substitute with \|, hence the result.
if really want to search for a "|", use the open square brackets
Code:
# echo "a.bc" | sed -e 's/[|]/\\|/g'
a.bc
# echo "a|bc" | sed -e 's/[|]/\\|/g'
a\|bc

 

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rubibtex(1)							       teTeX							       rubibtex(1)

NAME
rubibtex - make a bibliography for (La)TeX using Russian letters as item names SYNOPSIS
rubibtex BASENAME DESCRIPTION
rubibtex is used to run bibtex(1) on auxiliary files with Russian characters in item names (citation keys). It is part of the T2 package. rubibtex copies the auxiliary file to /tmp, uses sed(1) to convert Cyrillic character commands to their 8-bit ASCII equivalents; runs bib- tex(1) on the modified file; and finally moves the original auxiliary file back (overwriting the modified file). rubibtex assumes that the bibtex(1) database (bib) files are encoded with the KOI8-R encoding. FILES
basename.aux LaTeX auxiliary file BUGS
None known, but report any bugs found to the authors. COPYRIGHT
The T2 package is Copyright 1997-1999 Werner Lemberg, Vladimir Volovich and any individual authors listed elsewhere in package files. It may be distributed under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.1 of this license or (at your option) any later version. SEE ALSO
bibtex(1), sed(1), <ftp://ftp.vsu.ru/pub/tex/T2/README>. AUTHOR
Werner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org>, Vladimir Volovich <TeX@vvv.vsu.ru>. This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly <c@eskimo.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It may be used by other distributions with- out contacting the author. Any mistakes or omissions in the manual page are my fault; inquiries about or corrections to this manual page should be directed to me (and not to the primary author). teTeX October 2000 rubibtex(1)
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